Hungarian student who stabbed his teacher talks for the first time – “I didn’t want to kill her”

The boy spoke up for the first time in one year at a recent hearing at court. Even though the prosecutor’s office accuses him of attempted murder, he claims he never intended to kill the teacher. He only wanted to make her realise that her teaching methods were not working.

A 17-year-old boy attacked his 51-year-old teacher with a knife in December 2019 at the Jedlik Árnyos Secondary School in Győr, Hungary. The teacher was taken to the hospital, and the boy was immediately arrested by the authorities and taken into custody by the police. The teacher was stabbed in the back more than once, and her arms also got hurt, which had to be operated on.

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At a recent hearing, the boy talked about what happened for the first time since he was questioned by the police a year earlier. He spoke about the stress and pressure of school and how he never intended to kill the teacher. He just wanted to make her realise that her teaching methods were not working, Telex reports.

At the recent hearing, the boy said he was unable to recall the attack itself. He does not remember. His first memory is walking towards the teacher, and then the mental image of his classmate asking for the knife.

He said plenty about the attack one year ago when the police questioned him after the attack. Back then, he said: “I wanted the ambulance to take her and make her realise that her teaching methods were not working, but I did not want to kill her.” He also talked about having an adrenaline rush, hearing the teacher scream, and that his stabbing was not full strength but not light either.