French teacher killed by student who claimed to ‘be possessed’

• A mentally unstable 16-year-old student killed a teacher at a school in southwest France.
• The instructor seized the student’s weapon and stayed with him until the cops arrived.
• Veran expressed his sympathies to the victims.

Authorities said that a juvenile pupil killed a teacher at a school in southwest France on Wednesday.

According to French government spokesperson Olivier Veran, the 50-year-old female instructor passed away from wounds caused by the 16-year-old attacker.

According to media, the attacker was a teenager with mental health issues who stabbed the teacher in the chest and claimed to be “possessed.”

According to media, after the attack in Saint-Jean-de-Luz, the attacker ran into a nearby room and told a teacher that a voice had instructed him to carry out the attack. According to media, the instructor seized the student’s weapon and stayed with him until the cops showed up.

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According to the local prefecture, the incident happened at the Saint-Thomas d’Aquin high school in the Pyrenees-Atlantiques area of southwestern France.

Veran expressed his sympathies to the victims of the tragedy.

“I can hardly imagine the trauma that this can represent, locally and more generally on a national scale,” Veran told journalists Wednesday, adding on Twitter that there are “no words to describe the tragedy.”

According to a tweet from the French minister of education, he will be “without delay” at the scene.

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