The schoolboy hung from brutally stabbing a 15 -year -old girl in her school in western France was a lonely fascinated by Adolf Hitler, but did not have a clear reason for an attack that shocked the country, said the prosecutor who said.
The teenager killed the girl in a sharp spree on the day of private school in Nantes, inflicting 57 knife wounds in her body, mainly to the upper torso, skull and throat, according to prosecutor Antoine Leroy.
The attack caused a new search for the soul in France on adolescent violence and school security, and the prime minister suggested that metal detectors avoid future attacks.
Researchers are working to determine the reason for young people, who also wounded three other students in Thursday attack at Notre-Dame high school in Toutes-Aides.
The suspect, a teenager in the second year of high school, was arrested but then hospitalized on Thursday night, instead of being arrested, after a psychiatric examination.
The adolescent is “extremely lonely”, fascinated by Nazi leader Adolf Hitler and with “obviously suicidal tendencies,” said prosecutor Antoine Leroy, however, added that “no reason could be presented.”
The witnesses said that the teachers beat the teenage student, whose identity has not revealed the leg, but that a student also said that he had expressed admiration for Adolf Hitler.
The suspect had sent a divagant email about “globalization” to other students just before the attacks.
Antonin, a last year student of the high school, was among those who joined the mourners outside the school. He had brought a white rose to show the victims “we are thinking about them,” he said.
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Worried parents
On Friday morning, a father, who identified himself as Antoine, had left his daughter in the primary section of the school.
“We try to find the right words to tell him yesterday about the girl’s death,” said 44 -year -old Ti manager.
But he said he needed more time before he could talk about the tragedy with his eldest daughter, a student at high school.
“It is not bad for young people to return to school today, you can ask the teaching staff questions if necessary,” he added.
But another father, Olivia, 37, said he felt anxious for his son to return to the classroom.
“I admit that I seemed to spread my son at school this morning,” said the nursing assistant and mother of four children.
“Normally, the school is a place where nothing can happen,” he added.
The knife attack is the last of a series that has shocked France.
Prime Minister Francois Bayrou on Thursday requested a response to “endemic violence” among some young people and demanded proposals to avoid greater violence.
“These weapons must be prohibited,” said Bayrou, raising the possibility of metal detectors as “an option.”
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‘You can’t watch all children’
The figures on the right praised the idea, and some requested even more difficult security measures.
“Metal detectors, video surveillance with facial recognition that should not be ruled out,” said right -wing legislator Eric Ciotti.
But the left denounced the cost and focused on mental health.
“It would cost 100,000 euros (more than $ 110,000) per school. There are 12,000 schools in our country, so it can do mathematics quickly,” said the European Parliament Member of the European Parliament Manon Aubry Franceinfo.
“On average, there is a psychologist for every 1,500 students in our schools,” he added, asking for actions to address “the causes” or violence.
A student, who asked to remain in anonymity, on Thursday said the assailant “was known for being depressed, said he loved Hitler.”
The suspect sent a long email to other students before the attack, in which he said: “Globalization has transformed our system into a machine to decompose humanity.”
In the email, which a student showed the AFP, the attacker advocated a “biological revolt” to facilitate a return to the “natural order of things, even if it is cruel” instead of “globalized echocide.”
A mother who did not give her name called “meaningless” metal detectors, while leaving her in the commemorative service.
“You can’t watch all children,” he said. The attack “only shows that we need to support and help them more.”
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