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

After the attack on two members of the educational team at the Clément-Roassal nursery school in Nice, the mother of the students suspected of the acts was indicted for attempted murder and placed in pre-trial detention, announced the Nice prosecutor, Damien Martinelli, on Wednesday evening. The motives for this attack remain unknown.

The violence took place around 9 a.m. on Monday. Coming to request an urgent interview with the director, this 36-year-old woman stayed for an hour in her office, armed with a knife and a weapon presented as a firearm. According to the prosecutor, she hit the director then fired the gun pointed at her, without a shot being fired. She then slapped a teacher and threatened her with the gun before leaving the school. The children did not witness the violence.

The suspect arrested at her home

Arrested at her home after being followed by surveillance cameras, the suspect made “accusations of sexual assault of which one of her children was the victim”, according to the prosecutor’s press release. No religious remarks during the attack were mentioned. On Tuesday, Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez said the weapon was “fortunately fake.” The school reopened that day, in the presence of the two victims.