A schoolboy in the third class was arrested by the security forces after threatening one of his comrades with a handgun. The facts occurred in the fourteenth arrondissement of Paris. It is still unclear whether it was a real or fictitious weapon.

A student in a Parisian college was arrested by the police for threatening with a handgun one of his comrades, in a hallway of the institution, we learned this Tuesday from the rectorate of Paris. The teenager, in the third class at the Collège François-Villon in the fourteenth arrondissement of Paris, threatened another college student with a handgun Monday, said the rectorate, confirming information from RTL.

It was unclear Tuesday whether this weapon was fake or real.

The school then followed the procedure in this type of incident: call the police and then seize the rectorate, the latter added. In mid-October, the teaching world was shaken by the posting of a video showing a teacher from a high school in Creteil, a suburb of Paris, pointed by a student who asked him to erase the mention "absent" on a attendance record. The weapon was artificial, we had learned afterwards.

The video sparked the indignation of the political class and led the government to adopt an action plan to be presented in December. The main protagonist was indicted for "aggravated violence" as was the one who filmed and broadcast the video. At the beginning of November, at the end of a disciplinary council, they were definitively excluded from their establishment.