German Education Minister Bettina Stark-Watzinger on Wednesday expressed shock on the deadly stabbing of a trainer, allegedly by a pupil, yesterday.
“The violent death of the teacher leaves us stunned. We must do everything we can to better protect teachers from violence,” the minister advised the t-online news web site.
It was unacceptable that academics have been often insulted, threatened and attacked, Stark-Watzinger added.
The 17-year-old suspect had visited the 55-year-old trainer, who was alone, at a vocational faculty within the western city of Ibbenbüren within the afternoon, investigators stated.
Later, after the trainer had been attacked, he referred to as the police himself and allowed himself to be arrested with out resistance.
The motive for the lethal assault continues to be unclear.
The post-mortem on the trainer’s physique is ready to happen on Wednesday on the earliest, a police spokesperson stated. The suspect may additionally be introduced earlier than a choose on Wednesday.
Four years in the past, college students within the metropolis of Dortmund deliberate to kill a trainer after they obtained poor grades. They didn’t perform their homicide plot, partially as a result of the trainer turned suspicious.
Another pupil is at the moment standing trial in Düsseldorf for allegedly planning a pipe-bomb assault on academics and pupils at his faculty in Essen.
