Pupil stabs, critically wounds teacher in France

A secondary school pupil stabbed an art teacher in southern France on Tuesday, leaving the 60-year-old in critical condition, a prosecutor said.The pupil, in a class of early teenagers, stabbed the teacher at least three times. He was later arrested on suspicion of attempted murder, said Raphael Balland, the public prosecutor in the southern city of Toulon.There were no known “religious or political connotations” at this stage, said Balland.“All we know is that there had been tensions with this teacher recently, and that he was angry with her,” the prosecutor added during a press briefing.France’s education minister, Edouard Geffray, said he was headed to La Guicharde secondary school, where the stabbing took place, in the town of Sanary-sur-Mer.Students and their parents stand in front of the La Guicharde middle school after a teacher was stabbed on Tuesday. Photo: Reuters“My thoughts immediately go out to the victim, her family and the entire educational community, whose deep shock I share,” he wrote on social media.