A man who stabbed a teacher and a boy at a horticulture high school in the southern French city of Antibes has been arrested, police said, as quoted by Reuters and Agence France-Presse, BTA reported.
"The attacker has been arrested, he no longer poses a threat," a police spokesman said.
Police said the attacker was a former student at the school, but could not give details about his motive. The 52-year-old teacher was seriously injured, and the 16-year-old student suffered superficial wounds. The lives of both are out of danger.
The provincial prosecutor of Eric Camus visited the scene of the incident, but made no statement. "A teacher and a student were brutally attacked at a horticultural high school in Antibes. I express all my support to the victims, their families, the students and the entire educational community", commented on the social network "Ex" Annie Genevre, the retired Minister of Agriculture, who was expected to visit the horticultural high school this evening.
The school has 450 students from preparatory classes to grade 9 for training in professional, general or technological specialties related to plant professions (landscaping, nutrition, environment, etc.).
There has been no comment from the French Ministry of Education so far, AFP notes. In France, agricultural high schools are under the auspices of the Ministry of Agriculture. In recent months, several French secondary schools have been attacked with knives, AFP recalls.
Last week, a teacher was slightly injured in an attack by a colleague who stabbed him twice with a knife in the staff room of a high school in Martigues. In June, a 14-year-old student stabbed a teacher to death in Nogent, and in April, a high school student killed a 15-year-old teenager and injured three others at a high school in Nantes.