The Bayonne prosecutor announced the opening of a judicial information for assassination. The prosecution requested the maintenance in pre -trial detention of the 16 -year -old student, placed in police custody on Wednesday.
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The public prosecutor of Bayonne, Jérôme Bourrier, announced, Thursday, February 23, the upcoming opening of a judicial information for assassination, thus validating the premeditation element mentioned by the prosecution as soon as the opening of the opening of ‘An investigation in the case of the murder of a professor in Saint-Jean-de-Luz on Wednesday.
The 16 -year -old student was placed in police custody on Wednesday after stabbing a Spanish professor, Agnès Lassalle. According to the conclusions of a first psychiatric expertise carried out during police custody, still in progress, of the minor, the latter presents “anxious personality traits” which can “disturb his discernment”. The expert nevertheless does not note “no mental illness”.
The suspect is “accessible to criminal responsibility” and the prosecution will request his “placement in pre -trial detention”, announced the public prosecutor of Bayonne during a press conference on Thursday. The prosecutor added that he was going to open on Friday “a judicial information under the qualification of murder with premeditation”.
m. Bourrier returned to the facts which took place around 9:45 am in a classroom of the Saint-Thomas-d’Aquin high school during a Spanish course. The suspect would have risen in full class, “seized a roll of Sopalin”, then “approached the class door he locked”. He then headed for his teacher and released “a kitchen knife with an eighteen centimeter blade”, with whom he brought the teacher to the chest. The gesture, according to the witnesses present on the spot, was “fast, fluid and without hesitation”, describes the prosecutor.
a “little voice” encouraging “to do evil”
The respondent, which would be following the facts that remained standing, “as stupid”, was taken care of by other members of the teaching staff in a neighboring room. “I ruined my life, everything is over,” said the teenager, who “reported someone who would have taken possession of his body,” reveals Jérôme Bourrier. According to the first conclusions of the autopsy, a single violent, “fatal” blow, was brought to the teacher, who could not be saved by the emergency services.
“During police custody, the respondent reported a small voice that speaks to him, continues the prosecutor. A being he describes as selfish, manipulator, egocentric, who encourages him to do the bad and who would have suggested, the day before, to commit an assassination. “
“He also reported harassment which he would have been the victim in his previous establishment and which would have affected him very much (…) he had made in October 2022 a attempted suicide” Since the subject of a prescription of antidepressants, he said.
According to the first elements of the investigation, the suspect was also affected by an argument the day before with a comrade. He also admitted an “form of animosity towards his Spanish teacher”. Mr. Bourrier notes, however, that the student was unknown to the judicial services or his educational team for acts of violence.
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