Crime - Teenager seriously injures classmate with knife
A 16-year-old girl has seriously injured a 15-year-old classmate at a school in Cuxhaven with a knife. The injured girl was taken to hospital by ambulance after the incident on Thursday morning, according to a police spokesman. There is no danger to life. The background to the knife attack was an argument between the suspect and the victim. It was initially unclear what the argument was about.
The attack took place in front of the other pupils in a classroom at Lüdingworth School, a primary and secondary school in the district of the same name. A teacher and classmates prevented the 16-year-old perpetrator from committing further acts. There was no danger to other pupils or teachers, the spokesperson emphasized. The crime was reported at around 9.30 am.
Minister of Education dismayed
This is not the first time that a knife has been used in a school. At the end of May, a 17-year-old seriously injured a 16-year-old with a knife in a toilet at a vocational school in Wildeshausen near Bremen. The accused was convicted of attempted murder by the Oldenburg Regional Court in November and ordered to be placed in a psychiatric hospital.
In January, a 17-year-old pupil stabbed a 55-year-old teacher to death in a classroom at a vocational college in Ibbenbüren, north of Münster on the border with Lower Saxony. In April, the teenager was found dead in Herford prison.
Meanwhile, Lower Saxony's Minister of Education Julia Willie Hamburg has announced a thorough investigation into the knife attack at a school in Cuxhaven. "I am deeply shocked by this crime in one of our schools," said the Green politician on Thursday. "My thoughts at this time are with the injured girl, her family and the entire school community."
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- The incident in Cuxhaven has once again brought the issue of criminality in schools to the forefront, prompting calls for action from the German minister of education in Lower Saxony, Julia Willie Hamburg.
- The knife attack in Cuxhaven serves as a chilling reminder of the knife attack that occurred at a vocational school in Wildeshausen near Bremen, which resulted in an attempted murder conviction and a psychiatric hospital sentence for the perpetrator.
- In light of the escalating knife attacks in schools, authorities in Lower Saxony, including the minister of education, are working diligently to address the root causes of this criminal behavior and implement preventative measures to ensure a safe learning environment for all students in Cuxhaven and beyond.
Source: www.stern.de
