This Sunday, March 17, in police custody, the minor accused of having threatened the principal of the Herriot college in Chenôve, in the suburbs of Dijon, with a knife on Friday, did not dispute the facts, but gave two very different versions. regarding his motivations.
“He explained that he first wanted to take revenge on his English teacher by stabbing her, then, changing his mind, by taking her hostage in his class.
He then explained that he had mentioned the 2015 attacks in his letter with the sole aim of giving credibility to his project
,” the prosecutor reported in a press release.
The teenager was presented to an investigating judge with a view to his indictment, said the Dijon public prosecutor's office.
Opening of judicial information required
Then, at the end of police custody, the student finally explained
“having been recruited by acquaintances who had heard of his difficulties with his teacher, to kill her within the college”
as well as three members of the educational team.
This final version is however
“not corroborated by any objective element”
collected during the investigations and the anti-terrorist prosecution as well as the Dijon prosecution grant it, for the moment,
“very relative credit”
, it is written in particular in the press release.
The opening of a judicial investigation was requested for
“attempted intentional homicide against a teacher”
,
“intentional violence with aggravating circumstances”
,
“threats of crime or offense against members of staff working in educational establishments”
,
“intrusion into a school establishment with a weapon”
.
The placement in pre-trial detention of the minor was also requested by the Dijon public prosecutor's office.