A French teenager died from a heart attack during a lock-in to protect students from a knifeman attacking children outside their school.
The 14-year-old went into cardiac arrest early on Thursday afternoon as the attack unfolded in the town of Souffelweyersheim, in France’s northeastern Alsace region. She was taken to hospital but died later on Thursday.
The knifeman, who launched his assault outside the school about 2pm on Thursday, targeting two girls aged 11 and 7 before fleeing. The pair suffered minor injuries.
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The attacker was arrested shortly after 2:15 p.m. in the square. The man no longer had the knife in his hand and allowed himself to be questioned. According to the gendarmerie, Antoine M. is “not known to the services” , and his motivations “do not seem to be linked to radicalization” . Furthermore, the suspect, born in Strasbourg, presents a certain “mental fragility” , indicates a source close to the case who adds that the individual spent three stays in psychiatry and was followed by a psychiatrist.
