Attack in a nursery school in Nice: the mother indicted for attempted murder and imprisoned

The mother of a student, in an irregular situation, under house arrest and on file for Islamist radicalization, who threatened the director and a teacher of a nursery school in Nice on Monday, was indicted for attempted murder and imprisoned, the Nice prosecutor's office announced in a press release.

While in police custody, the woman contested the violence but admitted having fired her weapon several times, specifying that she knew it was empty, and expressing regret. Born in Tunisia, she is the mother of four children, and separated from the father of the two youngest, who was indicted for attempted homicide and habitual violence against a spouse in a case in which she is a civil party.

Threats

Monday morning, armed with a knife and a gun that she said she bought two days earlier, she stayed in the principal's office for an hour. A partial video of their exchanges was found on his phone. The woman hit the director and fired her gun pointed at her, without a shot being fired. A teacher encountered when leaving the office was also slapped and threatened with the weapon, which has still not been found.

After leaving school, the woman was followed using surveillance cameras and arrested shortly after at her home in a nearby street. During a search, during which the woman briefly tried to escape, investigators found a Laguiole knife as well as several passports, some of which could be fake.