The two 13-year-old boys threatened a teacher in Besançon last Tuesday after breaking into a college.

Arrested and placed in police custody, they finally acknowledged the facts, "but contesting any act of violence", according to prosecutor Etienne Manteaux.

“They speak of a game, of a challenge between them, but not of a desire to threaten anyone or disturb the establishment”.

As a reminder, the two teenagers entered the college in the popular district of Clairs Soleils in Besançon on Tuesday.

A teacher who was giving an English lesson in a 5th grade class and whom they did not know went to the hallway where they were making noise.

One of them brandished a weapon in his direction, shouting: “Come on!

Come on, we're going to kill you”, before fleeing while trying to steal a bicycle and a scooter.

deeply shocked

“Deeply shocked” by this attack “in a place where she transmits her knowledge”, the young woman was given seven days of temporary interruption of work (ITT), according to the prosecutor.

“The students did not see this threatening scene which took place in the hallway”.

When they were arrested by the police, the pellet gun was found on them.

They will be judged in June for "intrusion into a school establishment in order to disturb its tranquility, in a meeting and with a weapon - even if it was fake - violence with this weapon on a teacher and attempted theft", according to the prosecutor's office who asked the judge for the children to place them under judicial control.

The prosecutor nevertheless notes that “the main respondent, who allegedly held the weapon, had been expelled from this college after a fight, during which he had used a tear gas canister”.

“He obviously felt a certain resentment about it,” he says.

The teenager, educated in a Therapeutic, Educational, Pedagogical Institute (Itep) in Besançon after his exclusion, was also known to the police for having been arrested on a deal square.

His sidekick was educated in another college in the city.

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