Noémie Loiselle // Photo credit: BENJAMIN POLGE / HANS LUCAS / HANS LUCAS VIA AFP 2:16 p.m., March 17, 2024

Two days after a student at Édouard Herriot college in Chenôve threatened his principal with a kitchen knife, residents living around the establishment say they are still in shock.

They struggle to understand how such an event could have happened in a college which does not have a bad reputation.

The affair caused a stir.

This Friday, a schoolboy threatened his principal with a kitchen knife, at Édouard Herriot college.

If the tragedy was avoided, the neighborhood around the establishment remains in shock.

In the market, it's hard to escape this topic of conversation.

Some residents of the neighborhood are surprised, like Lise, 22, who has her little brother in fifth grade at this college. 

“It’s not a college where you normally hear stories of this type. Of course, there are hours of detention, small sanctions... But like in all colleges,” she explains to the microphone Europe 1. "There are no such serious and shocking cases. Even the neighborhood, to live there, remains a calm neighborhood for me," she continues. 

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“We always have a little stress”

But for Magali, the neighborhood is not reassuring.

This mother has decided to enroll her daughter next year in another college.

"There can be a deal. And then, the children are still small and easily influenced. So I prefer to put them in a more secure environment. We send our children to school and on a daily basis, we still have a little stress despite everything", confides -she. 

In this case, the 15-year-old teenager had already been expelled from two other colleges before arriving at Chenôve.

According to the prosecutor, he only has a criminal record for acts of willful damage.