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Student, 15, stabs teaching assistant to death during bag search at French school

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Students leave as French gendarmes control the access to a secondary school after a 31-year-old teaching assistant was stabbed with a knife by a 15-year-old pupil during a bag search in Nogent, eastern France, on June 10, 2025. The teaching assistant, who died of her wounds, received several knife wounds just as classes were starting, and the alleged attacker, who was overpowered by gendarmes, "appears to be a student at the school," education officials said. (Photo by Jean-Christophe VERHAEGEN / AFP) (Photo by JEAN-CHRISTOPHE VERHAEGEN/AFP via Getty Images)
Students leave as French gendarmes control the access to a secondary school after a 31-year-old teaching assistant was stabbed with a knife (Picture: AFP)

A 15-year-old student has stabbed a teaching assistant to death during a routine bag check at a school in Paris.

What has been described as a ‘senseless’ attack happened minutes before classes began at the Francoise Dolto School in the suburb of Nogent.

The 31-year-old school assistant, who has not yet been named by French police, suffered multiple stab wounds to her body.

She was later pronounced dead and the pupil was captured at the scene.

A police officer helping with the bag checks was slightly injured during the arrest, the gendarme service said.

French president Emmanuel Macron said in a post on X: ‘While she was looking after our children in Nogent, an educational assistant lost her life, a victim of senseless violence.

French gendarmes control the access to a secondary school after a 31-year-old teaching assistant was stabbed with a knife by a 15-year-old pupil during a bag search in Nogent, eastern France, on June 10, 2025. The teaching assistant, who died of her wounds, received several knife wounds just as classes were starting, and the alleged attacker, who was overpowered by gendarmes, "appears to be a student at the school," education officials said. (Photo by Jean-Christophe VERHAEGEN / AFP) (Photo by JEAN-CHRISTOPHE VERHAEGEN/AFP via Getty Images)
The teaching assistant, who died of her wounds, received several knife wounds just as classes were starting (Picture: AFP)

‘The nation is in mourning and the government mobilised to bring crime down.’

Such fatal attacks have been rare in France but concerns about school violence have been on the rise.

The Education Ministry introduced bag checks this year at some schools to reduce it.

Over a two-month period this spring, 186 knives were seized during school bag checks and 32 people detained, the interior minister’s office said Tuesday.

In April, a high school student stabbed four other students at his school in western France, killing one and wounding three others before being arrested, police said.

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