Fatally stabbed by one of her students on February 22, Agnès Lassalle received the Legion of Honor posthumously, according to a decree published Tuesday in the Official Journal. The one who taught at the high school Saint Thomas d'Aquin of Saint-Jean-de-Luz was elevated to the rank of knight to salute her twenty-seven years of service.

On Wednesday, February 22, just before 10 a.m., a second-year student hit Agnès Lassalle in the chest with a kitchen knife with an 18 cm blade. Emergency services were unable to save her. The 16-year-old was indicted for "murder".

In custody, the student had explained having obeyed "a small voice in his head," said the prosecutor of the Republic of Bayonne Jerome Bourrier. His lawyer Thierry Sagardoytho considered that the teenager should be examined by psychiatrists to determine whether his discernment was "complete" or "on the contrary abolished, or possibly altered" at the time of the facts.

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