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Drag queen convicted of tasering his mother

A female impersonator from Bayonne, south-western France, has been given a six month suspended prison sentence for tasering his mother.

Published: 25 October 2012 10:57 CEST

The man, named only as Pierre, was arrested after his mother went to the police accusing him of stunning her with a taser gun in the neck and thigh.

His mother was sent immediately to hospital after the incident and was unable to work for two days.

Pierre suffered from psychiatric problems and had been violent towards his mother in the past, according to local paper Sud Ouest. He denied the charges of tasering her.

The man also known in the region for his stage act, where he dresses in Lolita clothing – a Japanese fashion based on Victorian-era styles – and calls himself Laurine.

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Two girls wounded in knife attack outside French school

An assailant on Thursday wounded two girls aged 6 and 11 in a knife attack close to their school in the east of France and was later arrested, officials said.

Published: 18 April 2024 16:33 CEST
Two girls wounded in knife attack outside French school

The 11-year-old was stabbed outside the school in the town of Souffelweyersheim, on the outskirts of Strasbourg, while the six-year-old was attacked by the same man nearby.

Both received superficial wounds, police said, adding the attacker did not appear to have any known links to radicals and was not previously known to the security services.

Both received superficial wounds, police said, adding the attacker did not appear to have any known links to radicals and was not previously known to the security services.

Both girls are being treated in a paediatric hospital. Parents were later in the afternoon allowed to pick up their children, who had been confined to the school in the immediate aftermath of the attack.

The attacker, born in 1995, was arrested in the area where he attacked the second girl, the police said. He no longer had the knife in his hand and did not resist arrest, it added.

The attack came as Prime Minister Gabriel Attal announced a series of measures aimed at cracking down on violence committed by schoolchildren against their peers. There was no indication so far that the attacker had a link with the school.

“I’m really scared. We’ve been reassured that the children are safe inside, but we don’t know when we’ll be able to get them back,” Sarah, a mother of an eight-year-old pupil, told AFP before the green light was given to collect the children.

“A friend called me. She saw the commotion in front of the school as she passed by. Her reflex was to call me so that I could pick up my son.”

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