He wanted to do “like in Arras”: 12-year-old schoolgirl threatens her English teacher with a large knife.

A 12-year-old schoolgirl was arrested on Wednesday, December 13, after allegedly threatening her English teacher with a knife. The events took place in the middle of class this morning from 9:30 to 9:50 at the Hautes-Ourmes College in Rennes (Ille-et-Vilaine), classified in the REP+ zone.

This class 5 student said “Today I Want to Be Me” before pointing the knife at his teacher for preparation “As in Arras” Dominique Bernard mentions the massacre. The teacher ran away before being chased down the corridor of the establishment by the schoolgirl. telegram. The girl was stopped by the staff there and handed over to the police. Other teachers barricaded themselves in the classroom with their students.

“In 2011 a student born in Marseille (…) came to class with a large knife with the express intention of killing her English teacher”, noted Rennes’ public prosecutor Philippe Astruc. Classes are interrupted. According to preliminary evidence, the schoolgirl and her teacher got into an argument over the student’s use of a cell phone in class.

A cell Psychological support is installed. Welcomed by the Chancellor “Responsibility of the staff who managed the situation with an appropriate response and ensured that no one was injured”In his press release.