A secondary school student in Aubagne, southern France, shot and wounded the headmaster and a teacher with a hunting shotgun on Monday, after arriving at Joseph-Lakanal collège with the weapon concealed inside a guitar case — a premeditated act that sent students sprinting through bloodied hallways.
The attack lands during France's most volatile school climate in years: weeks of student protests and blockades have resulted in at least 85 educational staff injured and nearly 6,900 arrests nationwide, making Monday's shooting a dangerous escalation of an already fragile situation the government has struggled to contain.
