This Thursday, an event that occurred in Jerez de la Frontera (Cádiz) has shocked all its neighbors: a 14-year-old minor stabbed three teachers and two classmates at his school with knives he was carrying in his backpack. The boy, who suffers from Autism Spectrum Disorder and had previously suffered harassment, has been arrested and the center’s classes have been suspended.
While the motive for the attack is being clarified, some witnesses have already told everything they experienced inside the institute. This is the case of a student who has appeared live on the Telecinco program TardeAR, telling Ana Rosa Quintana her version of the events without showing her face. “It was the first 15 minutes of class and we heard noise in the next class,” she begins.
The students thought it was due to the lack of a teacher and, when one of the teachers went out to check what was happening, he found “a boy with two knives in his hands, and he goes to the teacher who had previously been in the room.” another class and then attack a classmate,” says the young man.
That attack could be avoided, “but it hit the other classmate, a Biology teacher, in the arm, and the Physics and Chemistry teacher was able to dodge it” before he entered the class where this witness was. “Everyone started coming out screaming, jumping over tables and chairs, terrified of the classes,” he said, later revealing that both he and a classmate were cornered by the aggressor without being able to escape.
The teachers present there tried to subdue the student while he continued pointing the knives at them, a situation that the boy who told what happened in TardeAR describes as distressing. “While I was looking at the knife, the other classmate, the other hostage, took advantage of it to escape, because she made way for one of the teachers, and I didn’t realize it,” he revealed.
This young man finally managed to escape from the aggressor by “pushing a teacher”, and on his way from the classroom to the school courtyard he observed “the hallways and stairs filled with drips of blood.” “The entire school was in the courtyard, people crying, with cell phones because most of the things were upstairs with the aggressor […] calling his parents so they wouldn’t worry,” the story concludes.
