Open judicial information for “assassination”

Two weeks after the attack on the knife of the Notre-Dame-de-Toutes-Aides high school in Nantes (Loire-Atlantique), a judicial information was opened for “assassination” and “attempted murder” by the Nantes prosecutor’s office.

After the attack on the knife occurring within the Lycée Notre-Dame-de-Toutes-Aides in Nantes (Loire-Atlantique) on April 24 killing a 15-year-old high school student, a judicial information for “assassination” was opened on April 30 by the Nantes prosecution, learned BFMTV this Tuesday, May 6.

“I confirm (…) The referral of the investigating judge of Nantes, on April 30, 2025, of the assassination leaders, attempted murder and violence aggravated by three circumstances, in this case with a weapon, within a school establishment and with the concealed face,” said the public prosecutor of Nantes, Antoine Leroy.

“The respondent is still in psychiatric care,” he said.

Furthermore, requested by BFMTV, the prosecutor does not “confirm” that there is a link between the facts that occurred within the high school in the anti-tech resistance ecological movement (ATR). Investigations are now carried out by an investigating judge.

An incomprehensible act

On Thursday, April 24, short afternoon, a young boy of 16 masked and equipped with a hunting knife of about 20 centimeters, killed a 15-year-old high school student, hitting her with 57 stabs in a room in the school group in Notre-Dame-de-Toutes-Aides. In a neighboring room, he made three injured: two boys and a girl, aged 15 to 16.

The next day, during a press conference, the prosecutor had indicated that “no mobile” could be mentioned in “certain”.

The intervention of a computer technician, who gave “a stroke of the back” of the aggressor, ended the attack on the high school student arrested a few minutes later by the police, then placed in police custody and, finally, hospitalized in a psychiatric unit.

An extremely lonely “high school student

The prosecutor also described the personality of the aggressor, presented as “extremely lonely” with few friends. The young man manifests “clearly a certain fascination for Hitler”, who earned him a summons with his mother in front of the Lycée Director the day before Easter Holidays.

During his press conference, the magistrate indicated that an investigation for “murder” is open, however, not spreading the possibility that it evolves in “assassination” given “the elements likely to characterize a premeditation”.

The funeral of the young teenager killed took place on May 2 in family intimacy.