Casablanca - Violence against teachers in France is back on the scene.
Based on the report of the local police, a 34-year-old French teacher was stabbed to death, last Friday. The perpetrator is one of her pupil’s mothers, whose reasons are still being kept from the public.
The drama caused uproar at the Edouard Herriot primary school in Albi, in southern France, since the incident took place in a classroom right in front of the eyes of children. It happened on the last day of school. The victim suffered from a cardiac arrest and was pronounced dead before the ambulance reached her.
French President Francois Hollande immediately sent France’s education minister to the concerned pre-school to provide support and promises. According to the government response, Mr.Hollande has proclaimed: "All state services will be mobilized to take care of these children and the staff who witnessed this awful tragedy."
This tragedy opened up old wounds from a shooting at a Jewish school in Toulouse in 2012, which took the lives of three children and an adult. Although these types of cases are rare in France, this tragedy shows that French authorities still have to strengthen security arrangements in and around schools, in order to prevent future similar events.
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