Nantes school stabbing leaves one teenager dead and three people injured at Notre-Dame-de-Toutes-Aides school in France
A high school student has been killed and three others injured in a school stabbing attack in western France, police have said.
The alleged culprit, a 15-year-old student, was tackled by teachers and overpowered before police arrived to the scene at the Notre-Dame-de-Toutes-Aides school near the town hall of Doulon, in Nantes, a police spokesperson said.
Images from the scene show police surrounding the school as the investigation into the horror attack gets underway. Firefighters and medical teams are also on site, where the school has been evacuated, according to French media.
There is no indication of a terrorist motive, the spokesperson added.
According to preliminary probes, the student entered two classrooms before carrying out the stabbing, before he was subdued.
One second-year student recalled the chaois following the attack, describing students running around the courtyard as someone yelled at them to get out.
“I was in the foyer, we saw a lot of people running around the courtyard, I heard that someone had a knife,” the student told Ouest-France.
“We didn’t know whether to believe it. Then we saw someone from IT holding the door to the high school building, he was yelling at us to get out. We took refuge with the middle school students. I just learned that a student had died…”
Another student said: “We were in the labs, the tension started to rise after the alarm sounded. We saw the police arrive. We stayed confined to the classrooms and then went out into the courtyard. We learned that teachers had intervened.”
Another student, who is in their final year at high school, told the outlet: “We’re very shocked. We only see this on television. We didn’t think it could happen in our high school.”
French education minister Elisabeth Borne said in a post on X: “A knife attack took place this afternoon at a private school in Nantes.
“I am going there with [interior minister] Bruno Retailleau to express my solidarity with the victims and my support for the educational community.”
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