...to "going pedagogical"--Ex-teacher takes pupils hostage in French school
NANTES, France (Reuters) - An armed, unemployed teacher took 20 pupils and three adults hostage at his former school in western France on Thursday, local officials said.
Police surrounded the secondary school in Sable-sur-Sarthe in western France and established contact with the man, who barricaded the pupils aged 17 to 18, a teacher and two other adults into a classroom.
Other pupils were evacuated from the school and a hotline was set up for anxious parents.
A spokesman for the town authorities in Sable-sur-Sarthe said the man was a 33-year-old supply teacher who had recently worked at the Colbert de Torcy school but was now out of work, and was carrying a hand gun.
"The man wants to talk to the press about job problems," the spokesman said. [...]
UPDATE: Thankfully, it's over, with no one getting hurt.