TL:DR – Teacher in France Stabbed by Pupil: Life-Threatening Injuries Update
- A 60-year-old art teacher was stabbed multiple times by a 14-year-old student at La Guicharde middle school, Sanary-sur-Mer, France.
- The teacher is critically injured and the student has been arrested for attempted murder.
- French Education Minister Édouard Geffray visited the scene, expressing profound shock.
- This incident follows a worrying trend of knife attacks on teachers in French schools, raising concerns over safety.
- Noteworthy past incidents include the fatal stabbing of a literature teacher in October 2023.
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French firefighters and rescue services work near the La Guicharde middle school after a teacher was seriously injured after being stabbed by a student, in Sanary-sur-Mer near Toulon, France (Picture: REUTERS)
### Art Teacher Stabbed by Student
An art teacher was fighting for her life in France today after being stabbed ‘three or four times’ by a teenage pupil.
The 60-year-old woman, who has not been named, was set upon by the 14-year-old pupil at La Guicharde middle school in Sanary-sur-Mer, in the south of the country, between Toulon and Marseille, on Tuesday.
The victim was taken to hospital ‘in a critical condition,’ while the attacker, who also remains unidentified, was arrested for ‘attempted murder,’ said a local police spokesman.
‘There were three or four stabs – two in the abdomen and one or two in the arm,’ said another investigating source, who noted the boy ‘had been shouting threats at the teacher’ beforehand.
### Education Minister Responds to Attack
Édouard Geffray, France’s education minister, said he would be ‘going to the scene immediately’ as he expressed ‘profound shock’ at what had happened.
This incident follows a series of knife attacks on teachers in French schools, some of them motivated by terrorism.
### Previous Stabbings in French Schools
In October 2023, a French literature teacher was stabbed to death at the Gambetta-Carnot school in Arras, northern France. Three other members of staff were injured in the onslaught by alleged ISIS supporter Mohammed Mogouchkov, a 20-year-old, who remains on remand and awaiting trial.
Three years prior, teacher Samuel Paty was beheaded by another Islamist terrorist in Éragny, the Paris suburb. The perpetrator, Abdoullakh Abouyezidovich Anzorov, an 18-year-old Russian refugee, was shot and killed by police minutes later.
Last September, a 66-year-old music teacher was attacked with a knife at a middle school in Benfeld, in eastern France. And last June, a supervisor at the Françoise Dolto middle school in Nogent, also near Paris, died after a knife attack by a student.