The Minister of Education Nicole Belloubet arrived this Monday in Chenôve (Côte-d'Or), where a schoolboy threatened her principal with a knife on Friday.
The teenager was arrested the same day.
He was indicted and placed in pre-trial detention on Sunday, in particular for "attempted intentional homicide on a teacher", "threats" or "intrusion into a school establishment with a weapon", according to the Dijon prosecutor's office.
Nicole Belloubet immediately “condemned with the greatest firmness” these threats on Friday, “saluting the courage and coolness” of the principal.
The latter was not injured.
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The teenager showed up shortly after 3 p.m. on Friday for a language class from which he had been excluded a few days earlier.
Directed towards the principal of the college, he presented her with a letter “mentioning a hostage-taking and referring to the attacks of November 2015” before “pointing a knife in her direction and verbally threatening her with death”, according to the floor.
The manager then managed to escape by triggering the intruder alarm.
The schoolboy had tried to join his class but it was confined, like the entire establishment.
He had threatened with his weapon "a maintenance agent who came to support" before "attempting to lock himself with him in the office" of the principal "from where the agent still managed to flee", according to the same source.
Remaining in the corridor, the teenager was finally arrested by the police after half an hour.