France school shooting: Pupil, 14, arrested as two teachers injured by shotgun fire

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Two teaching staff have been injured by gunfire at a school in France, according to education minister Edouard Geffray.

The pupil is reported to have used a 12-gauge shotgun, a hunting rifle, according to the publication.

The incident took place outside the school in Aubagne, near Marseille. The student’s motive is unknown.

A headteacher and a teacher were wounded in their lower bodies by the shooting and have sustained minor injuries.

Mayor of Aubagne, Jean-Pierre Squillari, said that the pupil was a third-year student and was “immediately neutralised and taken into custody by the law enforcement authorities” in a post on Facebook.

He said that “all students are safe and sound”, and that “no child was injured”.

“Thanks to the calmness and remarkable reflexes of the teachers and the entire educational team, all students were immediately confined and placed in safety from the very first second,” he said.

The mayor added that the psychological impact of the incident had been “immense” for the teenagers and that an “emergency medical-psychological cell has been activated”.

Police have said that the school was not impacted by the protests on Monday, according to the Associated Press.

“Two staff members from the National Education system, a principal and a teacher, were victims this morning of gunshot wounds at Lakanal middle school in Aubagne,” Geffray wrote in a post on X on Monday.

“A student is said to be the perpetrator. I am heading to the scene immediately with @NunezLaurent and @SabrinaRoubache.