A high school student has stabbed a teacher to death in a school in the French town of Saint-Jean-de-Luz. French government spokesman Olivier Véran confirmed Wednesday's attack and said the perpetrator was 16 years old.

French high-school student stabs teacher to death

French Imams gathered outside history teacher Samuel Paty's former college, Bois d’Aulne, to pay their respects, after he was killed nearby three days earlier.

WION Fineprint: French Imams pay respects to beheaded history teacher

Samuel Paty, the 47-year old history teacher beheaded by a suspected Islamist last week, will get France’s highest award, the 'Legion d’Honneur'.

Beheaded teacher Samuel Paty will get France's highest honour

In France, several hundred teachers gather in front of the rectorate in Rennes, Brittany, to pay tribute to the history teacher beheaded in a Paris suburb by a young Chechen Russian man.

French teacher beheaded: Students recall history teacher as being king, Teachers pay tribute

Terror struck France, this time with the gruesome beheading of a history teacher in a street in a Paris suburb. The suspected attacker was shot and killed by police.