The adolescent must be presented on Friday to an investigating judge for an indictment. Thursday, a minute of silence was observed at 3 pm in all schools returning from vacation in memory of the victim.
by Eléa Pommiers (Special Envoy in Saint-Jean- de-Luz (Pyrénées-Atlantiques))
In pouring rain, scattered teenage processions, faces masked by hoods or umbrellas, converge on the entrance to Saint-Thomas-d’Aquin college, in Saint-Jean-de-Luz ( Pyrénées-Atlantiques). Some tighten colored bouquets against them, others bring simple white roses which soon pile up along the grids. Welcomed by the teams of the establishment, but also by the police and a cloud of journalists, they regain the way to the classrooms in the aftermath of a drama which left the whole city in shock.
Wednesday, February 22 in the morning, a second student in this private high school got up in the Spanish lesson, locked the door of the classroom, then stabbed his teacher with a kitchen knife that He had hidden in paper towels before going to an adjoining room where two teachers intervened, asked him to let go of his weapon and mastered him. Agnès Lassalle, 52, could not be revived and died shortly after.
The adolescent must be presented on Friday to an investigating judge for an indictment. The public prosecutor of Bayonne, Jérôme Bourrier, announced that a judicial information for murder with premeditation would be open on Friday in view of “the obvious preparation”.
This story, reported by the prosecutor Thursday afternoon, is a very real memory for some students among the hundreds who were present at the entrance to the establishment.
xan – None of the people mentioned wished to give its name – is one of them. Present in the class during the attack, he tells, the trembling voice, “amazement”, the few seconds of denial in the face of an “impossible” gesture, the “panic”, “the reflex to flee”, the Police, psychological aid. Others, much more numerous, saw nothing but quickly discovered the facts, by a text received from a friend when they were underway, or on social networks. They relate the two hours of “uncertainty and anxiety” that they spent confined in their classroom before they could leave the establishment and join their parents, which the deep concern has not spared.
“Everyone is a block for students”
Since then, “we can no longer get social networks and TV, we only talk about that”, blows Victoire, 16, who spent, like his comrades, hours on Tiktok, Snapchat, Instagram , where videos and comments circulate by hundreds. She came with her first class a flower in her hand to pay tribute to the teacher killed, but also to find her friends, and exchange “in real life”.
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