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Teenage pupil faces murder charge after school stabbing that shook France

Flowers adorn a railing at the entrance of Françoise Dolto School in Nogent, eastern France, where a 31-year-old teaching assistant was stabbed to death on 10 June. AFP - FRANCOIS NASCIMBENI

French prosecutors on Thursday called for a 14-year-old pupil to be formally charged with murder after the fatal stabbing of a teaching assistant, in a case that has shocked the nation and reignited concerns over school safety.

The secondary school pupil was arrested Tuesday after allegedly killing with a knife a school monitor -- a 31-year-old mother of a young boy during a bag search in the eastern town of Nogent.

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