Investigation Opened for "Attempted Murder" After Kindergarten Principal and Teacher Assaulted in Nice by a Pupil's Mother

The 36-year-old woman, a mother of two children attending school in Nice, threatened the principal with a firearm before repeatedly striking her and slapping another teacher, according to the Nice public prosecutor's office.

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A 36-year-old woman was arrested and placed in police custody on Monday, November 2, after assaulting the principal and a teacher at a preschool in Nice (Alpes-Maritimes), public prosecutor Damien Martinelli and Mayor Éric Ciotti announced. An investigation for "attempted murder of a person carrying out a public service mission" has been opened by the Nice public prosecutor's office.

Éric Ciotti, who visited the school located near central Nice, condemned an assault of "unprecedented violence and of a particularly serious nature" committed at the Clément-Roassal school, in a post shared on X. The kindergarten principal, part of a larger school complex, "was violently assaulted after being held against her will in her office for nearly an hour," the elected official stated. "Another teacher was also physically assaulted; she was slapped as school was letting out, still within the school grounds."

Suspect previously convicted of violent offenses involving a weapon

According to preliminary information released by the prosecutor's office, a 36-year-old woman, the mother of two minor children enrolled at the Clément-Roassal preschool in Nice, arrived at the school's reception asking for an "emergency meeting with the school principal." The principal stated that the mother threatened her "by pointing a firearm in her direction and making accusations regarding alleged sexual assaults of which one of her children had reportedly been a victim."

According to the same source, the mother then "slapped the principal" and "pulled her hair" before threatening her with a knife. She subsequently slapped a teacher before threatening her with a firearm. The handgun used in the incident has not been recovered. The suspect has already been convicted twice, notably for violent offenses involving a weapon.

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