Overview
- Police and emergency teams responded to an incident in a corridor of Lycée Bréquigny’s documentation center where a 17-year-old pupil was injured by a bladed instrument.
- The injured student was taken to CHU Pontchaillou for treatment and medical staff have said the victim’s life is not in danger.
- A fellow pupil was taken into custody by officers and investigators report the suspect called police after the episode.
- Eyewitness accounts conflicted over the exact weapon used, with some saying a knife and police sources reporting two strikes with a cutter.
- Authorities place the attack in the wider context of recurring youth violence in French secondary schools and investigators will determine motive and possible disciplinary or criminal charges.