French teen ‘who glorified Hitler’ knifed 15-year-old girl ‘who he knew well’ more than 40 times as she screamed for help during frenzied school stabbing rampage attack

A French teenager who ‘glorified Adolf Hitler’ killed a 15-year-old girl by stabbing her at least 40 times before severely wounding another female student and two boys, it emerged today.

Horrific details of Justin P.’s attacks at a high school in Nantes were revealed on Friday as his principal victim was partially identified as a fellow student called Lorène.

She was singled out by Justin P., 16, at the Notre-Dame de Toutes-Aides college in western France on Thursday.

An investigating source said: ‘At around midday, the attacker entered a classroom looking for his victim, and then isolated her close to a second floor toilet.

‘He stabbed the girl, called Lorène, whom he knew well, at least forty times. She screamed for help, before succumbing to her wounds on the spot.’

Justin P. then entered a classroom, where he used two knives, including a hunting one, on three other teenagers, two male and one female.

‘The first boy he attacked was stabbed around ten times, while another boy was wounded in the shoulder. The assailant then attacked another girl from behind.’

By this time, the school’s information technology manager had jumped on Justin P., and was still restraining him when police arrived.

French police stands in front of the Notre-Dame-de-Toutes-Aides school after one high school student was killed and other students injured in a school stabbing, in Nantes, France, April 24, 2025.

French police secure the area near the Notre-Dame-de-Toutes-Aides high school following the stabbing on Thursday 

A unknown woman leaves flowers at the entrance of Notre-Dame de Toutes-Aides high school

Officers heard Justin P. shout ‘Shoot me in the head’ before they arrested him at gunpoint.

He was dressed all in black, while wearing a balaclava and cycling helmet with goggles.

Shortly before the attacks, Justine P. had sent an email to all 2000 pupils at the establishment calling for an end to the ‘ecological destruction’ of earth, and complaining about a range of other grievances, including ‘social alienation’.

It emerged on Friday that he had also been summonded by senior teachers at the school last week after producing ‘Swastika-filled’ drawings that ‘glorified Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich.’

At the same time, Justin P. also told fellow pupils: ‘I’m fed up, I’m going to take action in a week.’

On Friday, Justin P. had been released from police custody, and was in a secure psychiatric unit.

A spokesman for Nantes prosecutors said: ‘The psychiatrist concluded that his state of health was incompatible with custody.’

French prime minister François Bayrou reacted with horror to the attacks, saying: ‘This tragedy once again illustrates the endemic violence that exists among a segment of our youth.

French Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau, French Minister of Education, Higher Education and Research Elisabeth Borne, Mayor of Nantes Johanna Rolland and officials leave the Notre-Dame-de-Toutes-Aides school on Thursday after the attack 

French Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau, French Minister of Education, Higher Education and Research Elisabeth Borne and Mayor of Nantes Johanna Rolland talk to journalists in front of the Notre-Dame-de-Toutes-Aides school

The attacker has been identified as Justin P.

The teen is said to have stabbed his principal victim around 40 teams

The French military was dispatched to the scene of the school knife rampage

Teachers managed to restrain the boy before police arrived at the scene and overpowered him. The attacker has since been arrested

A police spokesperson said there was no indication of a terrorist motive

‘It leads us to ask ourselves fundamental questions in terms of education, the hierarchy of values, and respect for human life.’

President Emmanuel Macron reacted on Twitter X, writing: ‘A teenage girl lost her life, and three other high school students were injured, after a knife attack at a high school in Nantes.

‘I extend my heartfelt thoughts to the families, the high school students, and the entire educational community, whose shock and grief the nation shares.

‘Through their intervention, teachers undoubtedly prevented further tragedies. Their courage commands respect.’

Other knife attacks in French schools over the past two years have been linked to Islamist terrorism.

In October 2023, a teacher was stabbed to death at a school in Arras, northern France.

Dominique Bernard, who taught literature, was mortally wounded in the throat and thorax, while trying to protect his students.

Three other members of staff were injured in the attack by Mohammed Mogouchkov, a 20-year-old suspected terrorist who is still awaiting trial for murder.

And, in October 2020, teacher Samuel Paty was attacked and killed by Abdoullakh Abouyezidovich Anzorov, an 18-year-old Chechen refugee linked to Al-Qaeda.

Anzorov beheaded Mr Paty, before the attacker was himself shot and killed by police.

Despite this, there was no immediate indication that Justin P.’s behaviour was linked to terrorism, said a spokesman for Nantes prosecutors.

Justin P. was not known to police or the intelligent services before today.

He was described by a classmate as ‘a timid loner’ who commuted in to Nantes every day from the nearby town of Sainte-Luce-sur-Loire

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