Mother Charged After Attack on Two Teachers at School in Nice
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A woman attacked two women at a school in Nice, France.
The two women were a teacher and a headteacher.
The woman has children at the school. She is a mother.
Police say she had a file for radicalisation.
This means police watched her before for dangerous ideas.
Police also say she carried a weapon.
Now, a judge has put her under formal investigation.
This means the judge thinks she may have done a crime.
The judge sent her to pretrial detention.
This means she must stay in prison before her trial.
A trial is when a court decides if someone is guilty.
Police are still looking at the case.
They want to understand why she attacked the teachers.
Vocabulary15 words
- teacher
- a person who helps students learn
- headteacher
- the person who leads a school
- radicalisation
- having very extreme and dangerous ideas
- formal investigation
- when a judge officially checks if someone did a crime
- pretrial detention
- staying in prison before a trial
- trial
- when a court decides if someone is guilty
- attack
- to hurt someone on purpose
- suspect
- a person police think did a crime
- weapon
- a thing used to hurt someone
- police
- people who keep order and catch criminals
- judge
- a person who decides legal cases
- school
- a place where children learn
- case
- a problem that police or courts look at
- guilty
- having done something wrong or illegal
- prison
- a place where people stay when they break the law
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1. A mother attacked two staff members 2. She had a file for radicalisation 3. In pretrial detention
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A woman attacked two women at a _____ in Nice, France.
The two women were a teacher and a _____.
The woman has children at the school. She is a _____.
Police say she had a file for _____.
This means police watched her before for dangerous ideas.
Police also say she carried a _____.
Now, a judge has put her under formal _____.
This means the judge thinks she may have done a crime.
The judge sent her to _____ detention.
This means she must stay in prison before her _____.
Police are still looking at the _____.
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