A security guard at a French high school was stabbed to death by a 15-year-old student.

BarcelonaA 15-year-old student stabbed a security guard this morning as she was helping a police unit inspect backpacks during a security checkpoint at the Françoise Dolto secondary school in the town of Nogent, northeastern France. children in Nogent, an educational assistant has lost her life, victim of a senseless wave of violence," wrote the leader, who offered his condolences to the educational community.

The student, 15 years old according to the AP news agency, was arrested by the municipal police, while the rest of the school's students were reportedly counted. classes were starting when the suspect inflicted "several knife wounds" on the school employee, according to the Chaumont prosecutor, Denis Devallois. educational centers, the Ministry of Education introduced checks on student backpacks in some schools at the beginning of the school year. Over a two-month period this spring, 186 knives were seized and 32 people arrested during these checks, according to data published this morning by the Interior Minister's office. A high school student was arrested after stabbing four students at his school in Nantes. One died and the other three were injured.

Prime Minister François Bayrou expressed his regret over the incident, warning that "the threat of knives [...] has become critical," and vowing to turn this "scourge" into a "public enemy." He also said the government would consider installing weapon-detecting gates in schools.

Far-right leader Marine Le Pen took the opportunity to denounce the "trivialization of ultra-violence, fueled by the apathy of public authorities." "Not a week goes by without a tragedy striking a school," the leader of the National Regrouping party told X. "The French suffer violence from below and contempt from above: we can no longer tolerate this unbearable alliance of savagery on the ground and denial at the head of the state," added her colleague, Jordan Bardella.