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The 16-year-old student who stabbed
and injured a teacher at the Alessandrini institute in
Abbiategrasso near Milan on Monday morning has been admitted to
the adolescent neuropsychiatry department of San Paolo hospital
in the Lombardy regional capital, sources said.
The boy was initially taken to San Carlo for checks.
"There was never any warning of the possibility of such
behavior, we certainly could not have imagined such a thing as
this," said headteacher Michele Raffaeli, adding that the school
had already scheduled a meeting with the student and his parents
for Tuesday in relation to learning difficulties.
Initial investigations by carabinieri police who arrived on the
scene suggest the assailant attacked the 51-year-old teacher
from behind while she was passing through the rows of desks,
before threatening his classmates with a replica gun.
Police subsequently found the student sitting on his own with
his head between his hands.
He did not resist being arrested.
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