Pupil, 14, stabs to death assistant at French school

NOGENT, France: French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday condemned a “senseless wave of violence” after a 14-year-old fatally stabbed a teaching assistant in the country´s latest deadly school attack.

The secondary school student was arrested after attacking the 31-year-old assistant with a knife during a bag search in Nogent in eastern France, officials said. The assistant at the Francoise Dolto school was stabbed several times as pupils arrived to have their bags inspected in the presence of police, education officials said. “He is a young man from a family where both parents work, who does not present any particular difficulties.”