Nanterre: five young people still in police custody day after scuffles near a high school

The demands of students of the Joliot-Curie high school, who protested against the transfer of a unionized professor, focused on “the organization of the high school, the procedures for evaluating the bac, the educational organization as well as the rules interior “.

Le Monde with AFP

Five young people, mainly minor, were still in police custody on Wednesday, October 12, for armed crowd and aggravated voluntary violence, the day after an attempt to block the Joliot-Curie high school in Nanterre where students protested against the transfer of a union teacher, said the prosecution.

Tuesday, fourteen young people had been arrested and placed in police custody: nine were released at the end of the morning on Wednesday, with no charge against them in the immediate future. The hearings of the other five, including high school students, and the investigations continue. The investigation was entrusted to the Nanterre police station in Hauts-de-Seine, said the Nanterre prosecution.

“It is the same process as for high school students kneeling in Mantes-la-Jolie, it is the criminalization and the repression of a social movement,” reacted to the agency France-Presse M e érié Alimi, who defends the majority of high school students, denouncing “a political-judicial strategy which follows a member of a member of National Education”.

In the evening of Tuesday, the prefecture had condemned the “violence” and called for a “return to calm” after two police officers were injured and the police were the target of projectile jets and fireworks fire, according to a press release. The regional daily announces that” another person would have been injured on the forecourt of the town hall “.

The high school had already been blocked “a few hours” on Monday, said the Academy of Versailles, adding that the demands focused on “the organization of the high school, the methods of evaluating the bac, the educational organization as well that the internal regulations “.

” incredible violence “

“tear gas and batons”, charge of the police “of incredible violence”: the staff of the Joliot-Curie high school say they are “shocked by the disproportion between the deployed police means [Tuesday] And the reality of a peaceful adolescent-era “blockade in a press release. According to Le Parisien, “the police used tear gas and fired three LBD shots”.

“When the educational community is mobilizing, as at the Joliot-Curie high school where Kai Terada, professor of mathematics, was transferred to an unacceptable anti-union repression process, the response is violence,” abounded the Lycée Syvium La Voix high school student in a press release. “Several actions of participation and high school expression will in particular be built with the students” in order to calm the situation, reports the regional daily.

Kai Terada and three other teachers were the subject of a “mutation measure in the interest of the service (…) [aiming] to create renewed conditions to rebuild a peaceful climate” within this suffering establishment of “multiple and old dysfunctions”, said the Academy of Versailles by press release.

Kai Terada, also a cosecretary of Sud-Education 92, received a change order evoking an activity “outside the social dialogue bodies of the normal establishment or exercise of a union activity”, had reported By press release from teaching unions on October 3, accusing the academy of “union discrimination”.

/Media reports.