Fourteen-year-old student opens fire with hunting rifle at French school, wounding two

Jerusalem Post/World NewsA supervisor at Joseph Lakanal College disarmed the 14-year-old before police arrived, Aubagne mayor Jean-Pierre Squillari told reporters.Follow us on GoogleProtestors that authorities have said nationwide number in the hundreds of thousands and demonstrating against what they call an overcrowded, ill-equipped and understaffed education system, gather around the Monument à la République in the center of the Place de la République on October 4, 2026.(photo credit: Veronique de Viguerie/Getty Images)OCTOBER 12, 2026 14:24Updated: OCTOBER 12, 2026 14:36A French middle-school pupil shot and wounded a headteacher and a female staff member with a hunting rifle at a school near Marseille on Monday, the local mayor said.A supervisor at Joseph Lakanal college disarmed the 14-year-old before police arrived, Aubagne mayor Jean-Pierre Squillari told reporters. Both victims were hospitalized, but neither suffered life-threatening injuries, he added.BFM TV said the 14-year-old pupil had entered the school with the rifle hidden in a guitar case."It's a kid who goes to that school. He entered with a rifle; the investigation will determine how, and fired twice in a corridor toward the principal and a teacher," Squillari said.There was no immediate indication that the shooting was linked to a three-week wave of protests, some violent, that have rocked high schools across the country. President Emmanuel Macron condemned those incidents of violence on Monday.A protestor jumps over a wheelie bin as a fire is started on Voltaire boulevard while tens of thousands of secondary school students and their supporters march from Republic to Nation square on October 6, 2026 in Paris, France. (credit: Guy Smallman/Getty Images)Student protests roiling through France, unknown if shooting connectedStudent protests broke out throughout France in late September, with violent riots disrupting over 700 secondary schools and leading to thousands of arrests across France. Reportedly peaceful blockades in Paris broke out after the protests escalated into a major public order crisis for the Macron government. Follow us on Google