French teacher tells nursery school hostage drama (Telegraph)

But while he entered his class of three or four years and said she and her two teaching assistants to what he was up to.

One of the assistants have managed to get on and alert school, which had the rest of the building of a floor Manager have been evacuated and called the police.

Ms. Roffet, a 37 years old who taught for five years at the school of Charles Fourier transform on a succession to Planoise social housing on the edge of Besançon, said she tried to do things as normal as possible for children.

"We are drawing, puzzles and sings songs as usual." In fact, I carried with the class because it was on the phone with negotiators (police), "she told AFP shortly after his martyrdom."

"The children knew what was going on," she says, but he added that "some of the boys were intrigued by the two swords he."

Taken hostage-taker teen never unleash its two 30-centimetre (feet), swords, but Ms. Roffet said that she never felt that she or her students were in danger.

"It seemed completely lost and guys huddled in a corner," she said, noting that she thought "violence is not directed against the children, but against himself."

K. appeared exhausted and "crying on the phone" while he spoke to the negotiators police placed outside the building.

"I told him that I couldn't keep children for a long time," she says.

The teenager has agreed to let six young people. They left with the remaining teaching assistant. Then the wizard returned for another 10 children to be released with only five remaining in the room.

"I have chosen the five children who are calm, those who were better able to stay with me," said the professor.

Approach at noon, Ms. Roffet said its sensor that children should soon to eat. He accepted.

Heavily armed police who had seized building claimed to bring food to the door of the classroom, called children by their names and him out one by one.

K., huddling in a corner, leaving everything to go until it has been left alone in the room.

Agents and then settled in and he mastered with a pulse said police Taser gun.

Minister of education, Luc Chatel, which stated that the hostage was "clearly depressed person who has never had any requests, but in the end his own life", congratulated Ms. Roffet for his courage to hazards.