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The Guardian - UK
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Teaching assistant fatally stabbed by pupil at school in north-east France

Gendarmes in uniform stand near a van and a motorcycle
Gendarmes at the scene of the fatal stabbing in Nogent. Photograph: Jean-Christophe Verhaegen/AFP/Getty Images

Emmanuel Macron has condemned what he called a “senseless wave of violence” after a 14-year-old pupil fatally stabbed a teaching assistant at a school.

The 31-year-old woman died in hospital after she was stabbed during a bag search at the start of the school day outside a middle school in Nogent, in the Haute-Marne department in north-east France.

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