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Father Enters Foggia Classroom, Slaps Teacher After Daughter’s Reprimand

School leaders promise meetings and protective steps after the classroom assault.

Overview

  • The 14-year-old first-year student was told to stop resting her feet on a chair and then called her father using a phone prohibited during lessons.
  • The man entered the Einaudi institute by exploiting a briefly open door and reached the classroom despite three staff members being present.
  • He slapped the 61-year-old languages teacher in front of students, causing him to fall, and then left with his daughter.
  • Colleagues assisted the teacher, emergency services treated him, and he was discharged from hospital with a seven-day prognosis.
  • Carabinieri have opened an investigation and the attacker remains at large, while the principal scheduled meetings and protective measures and the teacher says he is too shaken to return immediately.