MIRROR
A teacher was today stabbed to death by a pupil who rambled about being “possessed by the devil” in a frenzied knife attack in front of a packed class at a school in France.
The bloodbath unfolded this morning at the Roman Catholic Thomas Aquinas private school in Saint-Jean-de-Luz, on the southwestern Atlantic coast.
“A Spanish lesson was taking place, when the pupil launched a frenzied attack on the teacher,” said an investigating source.
The murdered female Spanish teacher was in her 50s and had taught at the school “for a number of years,” said a source at St Thomas Aquinas. “She was well liked and respected.”
The 16-year-old pupil was restrained before police and emergency service arrived, but it was too late to save the life of the teacher, who succumbed to his injuries.
The private school, which has around 1000 pupils, was placed in lockdown immediately after the attack, until the pupil attacker was taken away by police.
“She was stabbed through the chest,” said the source, without naming either the attacker or the victim.
The attacker rose from his seat during classtime, holding a bladed weapon between sheets of paper, one student told local media.
