France tests the installation of security gates in schools, after the crime in the northeast of the country
French gendarmes control access to a high school in Nentent, east of France. Photo: Jean-Christophe Verhaegen / AFP / Profimedia
France Prime Minister François Bayrou said on Tuesday that the Government intends to test the installation of security gates in schools, in the context of a 14 -year -old student is suspected of deadly stabbing a school assistant who controls the students' backpacks, notes Reuters.
The killing of the 31 -year -old woman was widely condemned by the political class in France, arousing concerns and reflections on how a minor could commit such an act of violence.
“While watching our children at Nentent, an educational assistant lost his life, a victim of a wave of meaningless,” wrote President Emmanuel Macron on X. “The nation is in mourning, and the government is mobilized to reduce crime.”
The public prosecutor from Chaumont, Denis Devallois, said that the alleged author of the deed has stabbed the assistant several times with a knife.
Bayro told the parliamentarians that this crime was not an isolated incident and that France cannot afford to ignore this wave of juvenile violence.
“We cannot remain indifferent and to look at the cross arms as this wave forward,” he said.
“The government intends to experience the installation of security gates at the entrance to schools,” added Bayro, stating that he wants to prohibit certain types of knives, as “a certain number of them are not considered weapons.”
Why were the students' backpacks controlled
The check of the backpacks was “long planned” together with the Gendarmerie, “according to the Circular Retailleau-Borne,” the AFP Rectorate said.
Random checks were set up after a beating in March, which caused the death of a young man in front of a high school in Essonne.
The Minister of the Interior then promised several “discouragement and sanctions” near educational institutions.
The Ministry of National Education indicated on Tuesday that, between March 26 and May 23, 6,000 checks led to the confiscation of 186 knives, and 587 disciplinary councils took place in total for holding knives.
The attack took place on the same day that an armed man from Austria killed at least nine people in a secondary school in the city of Graz, located in the south of the country.
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