PARIS, June 6 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - Following the murder of a teenage girl by a fellow student who said he had been inspired by the U.S. horror movie “Scream”, a French politician called Wednesday, June 5, for the film to be immediately withdrawn.

Didier Fischer, a Socialist candidate in upcoming parliamentary elections from the Yvelines region west of Paris, said all DVDs and video cassettes should be taken down from shelves following the killing late Monday. He also proposed the creation of an unarmed police force for schools, Agence France-Presse (AFP) said.

A 17-year-old high school student was in custody Wednesday, facing charges for the murder of a 15-year-old friend he repeatedly stabbed in woods near her home in the western French city of Nantes.

The youth, who cannot be named under French law, covered his face with the Scream mask, based on the painting by Edvard Munch, before stabbing the girl several times, the British daily newspaper, the Independent reported.

Arrested at his parents’ home just minutes later, the young man said he had been inspired by the film “Scream”, and he was found with a bag containing a model of the mask shown in the film as well as a knife believed by investigators to have been the weapon used in the attack, AFP said.

“I was obsessed with living through the same experience as the heroes of Scream,” the boy told French police. “I wanted to kill like them.”

While staying with his grandmother, the boy, from a wealthy family, had repeatedly watched videos of the three Scream movies, a trilogy created by U.S. director Wes Craven, takes the standard psychotic-killer-on-the-loose story and infuses it with references to other horror films and the genre in general.

The movies, intended as a spoof of horror films, follow the murderous careers of young, wealthy U.S. college students, the Independent said. The villain himself is portrayed as having been influenced by such movies for his own killing spree.

Judicial officials said late Wednesday the youth had been officially placed under investigation, the first step to formal charges being laid, and had been remanded in custody after a brief court appearance. He risks a life behind bars.

The French boy’s victim was a school friend, Alice Beauperè, who was still alive when she was discovered by a neighbor. The victim was able to identify her assailant before succumbing to her wounds in hospital.