Two Teachers Shot in France; Far-Left Network Is Funding the Chaos

A 14-year-old pupil walked into a middle school near Marseille Monday morning with a hunting shotgun hidden inside a guitar case and opened fire, wounding the principal and a teacher.

Both suffered non-life-threatening injuries to the lower body. Staff overpowered the shooter before police arrived. Education Minister Édouard Geffray stated on social media: “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. A student is said to be the perpetrator.”

He added that the act was “yet further evidence of the rise of unchecked violence in our society.”

Local officials and media have claimed there is no apparent link to the ongoing riots. The shooting nevertheless landed amid weeks of escalating unrest that began as complaints about teacher shortages, overcrowded classrooms, and dilapidated buildings – and quickly turned into arson, looting, and assaults on police and staff.

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This is the same playbook long familiar in American streets. The network is not spontaneous. Adult organisers, political parties, and media amplifiers have seized a student issue and turned it into street chaos.

Earlier incidents documented the scale. Rioters set fire to the exit of a Paris vocational high school, trapping roughly 100 students and staff inside while firefighters and police faced mortar fire.

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The violence has already crossed into Belgium. In Liège, student protests against education cuts descended into nights of broken glass, fires, and looting. Belgian Interior Minister Bernard Quintin said at a press conference that the movement was no longer spontaneous: “We know that there is a movement, of the Antifa type, active in Liège.” He continued: “Adults who manipulate children in order to put across violent political messages. That is totally unacceptable.”

Police recorded nearly 200 detentions in Liège alone since early October, the majority minors answering social-media calls. A 13-year-old was held after posting calls to set a school on fire. The unrest reached Brussels during a national anti-austerity demonstration, where masked groups clashed with police near the central station, set fires to bikes and buses, and threw projectiles.

Officers confiscated a samurai-style sword. A Palestinian flag was visible. French authorities have taken nearly 6,900 people into custody since the unrest began, 86 percent of them minors.

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