The Republic finally honors Agnès Lassalle, a professor murdered while giving her course in Saint-Jean-de-Luz, by decorating her with the Legion of Honor.
This decision, published in the
Official Journal
on April 24, is based on article R26 providing that the Prime Minister is authorized "
to appoint or promote in order
" "
persons killed or injured in the performance of their duty and who are recognized as worthy of receiving this distinction
”.
His assassination had shocked the whole of France.
On February 22, Agnès Lassalle, a Spanish teacher at the Saint-Thomas d'Aquin free high school, in Saint-Jean-de-Luz (Pyrénées-Atlantiques) was stabbed in the middle of class by a 16-year-old student who allegedly
" heard voices'
at night asking him to kill her.
The teacher had been shot in the heart.
The student responsible for the attack was arrested and taken into custody.
An investigation was opened for "
assassination
", that is to say murder with premeditation, and entrusted to the judicial police of Bayonne.
Following the funeral mass on March 3, the man who shared his life, Stéphane Voirin, had started dancing, alone on the song Love, by Nat King Cole.
He had been joined by several couples who danced in turn.
A scene that had been filmed, then shared many times on social networks.
