Teacher stabbed by pupil in southern France school

SANARY-SUR-MER, France, Feb ⁠3 (Reuters) - An ⁠art ‍teacher was in a critical condition after she was stabbed several times by a ‍14-year-old pupil during class in a middle ​school in Sanary-sur-Mer, in southern France, on Tuesday, the local ​Toulon prosecutor said.

The 60-year-old teacher was stabbed three to four times in the torso with a knife in her classroom ​on Tuesday afternoon, Raphael Balland told reporters. The pupil was arrested and was being detained on ​suspicion of attempted murder, he added.

No religious nor political motive could ‌be found for the attack, but there had been tensions between the pupil and ​the teacher, Balland said. The ⁠attacker had no criminal record.

Security in France's schools has been the subject of ‌intense debate in recent years. In June, then-Prime Minister Francois Bayrou said the government would test adding security ‌gates at schools after a school aide was stabbed during ‌a bag search.

In September, a music teacher was stabbed by a 14-year-old in the face by a student during class ‍in a middle school in northeastern France. And in 2020, the murder of ⁠teacher Samuel Paty after he showed pupils caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad in a class on free speech sparked a political uproar.

(Reporting by Dominique Vidalon; Editing by Benoit Van Overstraeten)

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