Stabbed teacher in Caen. High school student charged with attempted murder
This Thursday, September 15, 2022, the 15-year-old teenager arrested on Tuesday by the municipal police in front of the entrance to the Malherbe high school in Caen was indicted for attempted murder. A few minutes before his arrest, around 11:15 a.m., at the end of a lesson, he allegedly stabbed his 63-year-old French teacher according to our information.
“He is a sophomore, with no background, recalls the public prosecutor of Caen, in a press release sent to the press at 3:35 p.m. The explanations he gives of his gesture do not correspond to any objectively comprehensible situation. Even if his state of health was compatible, in view of the various medical examinations, with the constraints of police custody, the defendant was hospitalized (at the end of his custody), this morning, on the recommendations of the doctor who examined him during this one. At this stage, it is a question of taking into account a complex medical situation in an adolescent. The question of the integrity of the discernment at the time of the facts will arise, before the investigating judge. »
The premeditation retained for the investigation
A judicial inquiry (in-depth investigation under the supervision of an investigating judge) has been opened, to “Assassination attempt, specifies Amélie Cladière. Indeed, the elements in favor of the intention to kill and the premeditation of the gesture impose this criminal qualification at this stage of the investigation. »
The second 1st student from Lycée Malherbe had come to class with a long ceramic knife, hidden in his bag. He would have used it to deliver two blows to his French teacher, in the neck and in the stomach. Her days are not in danger and she should soon be released from the hospital.