１２歳女子生徒、授業中に教師刺殺試み　仏

【レンヌＡＦＰ＝時事】フランス北西部レンヌの中学校で１３日、英語の授業中に１２歳の女子生徒が教師に向かって包丁を振りかざす事件があった。負傷者はいなかったが、検察は殺人未遂容疑で捜査を開始した。（写真は、凶器として使われた包丁のスケッチを公開する検察官）
　事件が起きたのはレンヌにあるオート・オルム中学校。現地の検事によると、女子生徒は「英語教師を殺すつもりで」、大振りの包丁を教室に持ち込んだ。授業中に教師に向かって包丁を振りかざすと、教師は走って逃げた。
　女子生徒は職員に取り押さえられ、包丁を取り上げられた。レンヌの教育当局によると、ショックを受けたクラスメートたちはすぐに安全な場所に移された。
　検察の会見では、凶器として使われた長さ１７センチの包丁のスケッチが公開された。
　女子生徒は病院で精神鑑定を受けており、状況を解明する一助になるとみられている。会見した検事は女子生徒の行動について、「心理学的、あるいは精神医学的な側面が中心にある」との見方を示した。
　女子生徒の家族はフランスに居住権のあるモンゴル系移民で、レンヌへは２０１２年にやって来た。女子生徒は４人きょうだいの長子だという。
　イスラム教徒やユダヤ教徒が多く暮らすフランスでは近年、学校教育の現場で緊張が高まっている。
　最近ではパレスチナ自治区ガザ地区のイスラム組織ハマスとイスラエルの軍事衝突もそうした緊張の種に加わり、１０月には北部アラスで急進化したイスラム教徒が教師を刺殺する事件も起きた。
　匿名を条件にＡＦＰの取材に応じた同校の生徒によると、８日に襲われた英語教師と女子生徒の間で口論があった。教師が携帯電話を没収したのがきっかけとみられるという。
　女子生徒はクラスメートの前で、英語教師を「アラス（の事件）と同じように」殺すと宣言したが、「誰も本気にしなかった」とされる。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2023/12/14-17:34）

A 12-year-old schoolgirl threatened a teacher with a knife in an apparent murder attempt at a French school on Wednesday, prosecutors said, the latest incident in the country's increasingly tense education system.
No one was injured in the incident during English class in the northwestern city of Rennes but prosecutors said they have opened a criminal investigation into attempted murder.
Born in 2011, the schoolgirl came to class armed with a large knife with the apparent intention of killing her English teacher, said Rennes prosecutor Philippe Astruc.
During the lesson, in class, she brandished the knife at the victim who fled running, before the girl was disarmed by staff of the Hautes Ourmes junior high school, he added.
The pupils, shocked, were immediately moved to safety, the local education authority said.
At a press conference, Astruc showed drawings of a kitchen knife, which he said was 17 centimetres (6.7 inches) long.
The girl underwent psychiatric examinations in hospital which concluded that the minor was 'dangerous for herself' and that her condition required care in a specialised environment, Astruc said in a statement Wednesday.
The prosecutor had previously said it appeared the psychological or even psychiatric aspect seemed dominant in the act by the girl.
The suspect is the eldest of four children in a family of Mongolian origin with residency in France and who arrived in Rennes in 2012.
Tensions have been rising in schools in France, which has large Muslim and Jewish communities, sometimes linked to the war between Israel and Palestinian Islamist group Hamas.
In October, a radicalised Islamist stabbed his former teacher to death in the northern town of Arras.
Earlier this week teachers at a school outside Paris refused to work after a group of pupils objected to the showing in class of a painting by Renaissance master Giuseppe Cesari containing several nude women.
- 'Immense courage' -
Education Minister Gabriel Attal said he gave his absolute support to the teacher hailing the immense courage and composure of the staff on site who were able to react to this threat.
A young girl from the school told AFP on condition of anonymity that there had been a dispute between the schoolgirl and the teacher who allegedly confiscated her cell phone last Friday.
She said the schoolgirl declared in front of her classmates that she was going to kill the teacher and do like in Arras but no one took her seriously.
Separately on Wednesday, prosecutors in the Paris suburb of Creteil said they opened an investigation into death threats based on race, ethnicity, nationality or religion after a man broke into a creche on Tuesday and threatened its director with a knife.
The man threatened to rape her and made anti-Semitic remarks, the prosecutors added.