The teenager arrested after shootings in a college in Aubagne admits the facts but denies "having wanted to kill"

The investigation is progressing after the shootings that occurred on Monday in a college in Aubagne (Bouches-du-Rhône), injuring the principal of the establishment and a teacher. The arrested 14-year-old teenager admitted the facts but denies "wanting to kill", announced the National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor's Office (Pnat) in a press release on Wednesday October 14. No “psychological pathology” was “detected” in this teenager, specifies the Pnat, adding that it requested the schoolboy’s placement in pre-trial detention.

"As part of his hearings in police custody, the accused recognized the materiality of the facts, admitting to having matured his plan for several months, however denying having wanted to kill the targeted people", we can read in this press release. According to this same source, the schoolboy "motivated his act by a desire for revenge due to harassment by his teachers and classmates, about which he had not disclosed to anyone and which, at this stage of the investigation, did not appear to be corroborated".

The investigations will now continue under the direction of three anti-terrorism investigating judges from the Paris judicial court, developed the Pnat.