A 17-year-old boy died on Tuesday after being stabbed by a fellow pupil in front of their school in the town of Bourges.

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Pupil dies after school stabbing

A 17-year-old boy died on Tuesday after being stabbed by a fellow pupil in front of their school in the town of Bourges.

Published: 15 February 2012 07:35 CET
Pupil dies after school stabbing
Le Berry Républicain newspaper leberry.fr

BFM TV reported on Wednesday that an argument started over money on Tuesday lunchtime in front of the Lycée Marguerite-de-Navarre.

One of the boys took out a knife and stabbed the other at least twice.

The wounded pupil was rushed to hospital in the town where he died of his injuries later on Tuesday evening.

The alleged attacker was an 18-year-old pupil at the school who is being held by police and will appear in front of magistrates on Wednesday or Thursday.

Neither boy is thought to have been in trouble with the police in the past. 

Bourges is the principal town of the Cher department, which sits in the Centre region of the country. 

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One dead, several injured in Paris suburb shooting

One person was killed and six injured overnight in a gritty northern Paris suburb in a shooting likely linked to drug trafficking, prosecutors and the mayor said Saturday.

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The attack in a parking lot near a cultural centre at Sevran, which lies between central Paris and the city’s main airport Charles de Gaulle, took place around 11:45 pm (2145 GMT) Friday, prosecutors said.

Upon arriving on the scene, police found four injured people strewn on the ground. One died soon after and the three others were taken to hospitals in a serious condition, a police source said.

Three more people injured by bullets were later taken to hospital, the source said, adding that two men had arrived in the parking lot in a car and one of them got out and opened fire.

The attackers then fled.

Sevran mayor Stephane Blanchet told AFP “it was clearly a settling of scores linked to drug trafficking.”

“There is a need to establish order and eradicate trafficking,” he said. “Those idiots fired live bullets and did not heed appeals for calm”.

Police have opened an investigation into intentional homicide by an organised gang, they said. No arrests had been by Saturday morning.

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