AUBAGNE, France: A 14-year-old boy opened fireplace with a searching gun at a center faculty in France on Monday (Oct 12), wounding the headmaster and a trainer earlier than being disarmed by a member of workers, native authorities mentioned.
The capturing occurred at Joseph-Lakanal center faculty within the southern city of Aubagne, close to Marseille, the place a 3rd individual was grazed by gunfire, police mentioned.
Authorities mentioned there didn’t seem like a hyperlink with high school protests that have rocked France in latest weeks.
“The center faculty was not affected by the highschool college students’ protest,” police instructed AFP.
The suspect “got here in carrying a bag which was a guitar case. He clearly eliminated a weapon from this guitar case – a protracted gun”, mentioned Marseille’s deputy public prosecutor Audrey Jouaneton.
He fired at the very least 4 photographs, together with inside a classroom occupied by lecturers and pupils, leaving a mark on a blackboard, she added.
The headmaster, 53, and trainer, 37, weren’t in important situation, in keeping with authorities.
“The suspect, for causes as but unknown, fired on the headteacher, who was hit by a bathe of pellets within the thighs and decrease again,” mentioned Jacques Witkowski, prefect of the broader Bouches-du-Rhone area.
He then fired at a second trainer, who was hit by buckshot within the thigh earlier than a member of workers disarmed him, he mentioned.
The suspect “will not be identified for any historical past of delinquency or radicalisation”, Witkowski added.
