High school student arrested over classroom stabbing of teacher

A youth holds a white rose at the entrance of a private Catholic school after a teacher of Spanish was stabbed to death (AP Photo/Bob Edme)

A high school student has been arrested for allegedly stabbing a teacher to death in front of other students in a classroom in southwestern France, it has been reported.

An investigation has been opened for suspected premeditated murder into the incident on Wednesday at a private Catholic school in Saint-Jean-de-Luz, Bayonne prosecutor Jerome Bourrier said.