Without surprise, yesterday’s eventis in the minds and in all conversations, children and parents alike. On Monday, shortly before 4:30 p.m., a man was stabbed in the neck in the nearby parking lot, before his attacker…
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Without surprise, yesterday’s event is in the minds and in all conversations, children and parents alike. Monday, shortly before 4:30 p.m., a man was stabbed in the neck in the nearby car park, before his attacker took over the management of the establishment, more precisely of the leisure reception, between the elementary and kindergarten classes, through the gate leading to an open-air airlock several meters high.
Dispute conjugale
Knife in hand, he would have taken only a few steps, “a dozen”, assures the first deputy mayor Michel Poignonec, without reaching the doors, before turning back, apparently dissuaded from going there by the cries recreation center staff. Returning to the forecourt, surrounded by parents who tried to make him come to his senses, he was overpowered with an electric pulse pistol by the anti-crime brigade (BAC) and arrested. When the patrol arrived, he would have gone towards the police “with determination”, according to Michel Poignonec, and still armed.
Epilogue of a chain of violence, with the Jules-Verne school as a backdrop. It all started with a marital dispute on the public highway. Aged 21, domiciled in this same district of Bocage and described as unstable, the man made several stays in a psychiatric hospital, his last release dating back to March 25.
” Screams “
If the injured passerby, a 44-year-old Talençais, was rushed to hospital, his life is not in danger. But the blow would have been struck only a few centimeters from the carotid artery. And it was while trying to flee that the assailant found himself in the airlock of the leisure reception. “He is not someone who was particularly angry with the children,” said a first mother on Tuesday morning. “A combination of circumstances”, abounds a second.
If the worst was avoided, the children were disturbed by the agitation, even the “panic movement”, describes a mother, on the forecourt. “At the leisure reception, they were having a snack. They were asked to change rooms. They mostly heard the screams. »
Here and there, “they just heard the word knife, and the crying led to more crying among the children,” says a father. On the elementary side, a mother rushed into the school, with adults and children invited to go back to the classes. “I found myself in a class with a teacher who started playing with the children for 15-20 minutes. »
“Very isolated act”
Remained this Monday evening to manage the stress of the children. “We debriefed”, we confirm in the ranks of the parents. “My 8-year-old son came home crying,” says a father. “We try to find the right words, to tell him that it will not happen again. But, this morning, he was not in the mood to come to school…”
Prefecture and National Education services have set up a psychological support unit this Tuesday morning. “We are safe from nothing”, comments Michel Poignonec, adding that this is a “very isolated act”: “the school was not targeted. Nevertheless, we completely understand the emotion of the parents.
“There is no apprehension in bringing the children to school,” confides one mother. “The way things were taken care of by teachers and staff even strengthened the bonds. Coincidentally, an anti-intrusion exercise took place on Monday afternoon at the Jules-Verne school.
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