A tribute to Agnès Lassalle. A minute of silence will be observed, at 3 p.m., Thursday, February 23, in colleges and high schools to honor the memory of the Spanish teacher stabbed by a student on Wednesday in her class at the private Catholic high school Saint-Thomas d’Aquin, in Saint-Jean-de-Luz (Pyrénées-Atlantiques). The minute of silence will be respected in the establishments of zone A (academies of Besançon, Bordeaux, Clermont-Ferrand, Dijon, Grenoble, Limoges, Lyon and Poitiers), the only one where the winter holidays are over. The Minister of National Education, Pap Ndiaye, will be at Combe de Savoie College in Albertville (Savoie). Follow our live.
An “exceptional dedication”. “She was a very pretty and very good person, who was loved by all”, “who was not in the conflict” And “spent at least 80-90% of his time doing his work for his school, even during the holidays”testified his companion on BFMTV, Wednesday evening. On the spot, the Minister of National Education greeted “exceptional dedication” of this 53-year-old teacher.
The main suspect in custody. A student suspected of having committed the acts16 years old, is “taken into custody”because its “state” THE “allow”. He “was not known to the police or justice services”he specified the Bayonne prosecutor, Jérôme Bourrier. The latter opened an investigation for “assassination”. He will hold a press conference on Thursday, also at 3 p.m.
A psychological cell set up. According to a high school student present in the class on Wednesday, named Inès, the alleged perpetrator “came near” of the teacher “and stuck a big knife in his chest, without saying anything”. “I didn’t feel safe in high school”she added, assuring that he “there had never been a problem between” the perpetrator of the attack “and the teacher in class”. The pupils of the class concerned were taken care of by a psychological unit, as were the pupils of the two other second classes of the college-high school. Thursday morning should also be “trivialized” in the building.