The Joliot-Curie high school has known tensions between high school and police officers since Monday after the transfer of a teacher and trade unionist. Fourteen arrests had already taken place on Tuesday.
Le Monde with AFP
New moments of tensions took place, Thursday, October 13, in the morning, near the Joliot-Curie high school in Nanterre, according to the Academy of Versailles, which specifies that the establishment has been closed since and will reopen on Friday.
Two students were arrested after new scuffles between high school students and police near the establishment, learned the France-Presse (AFP) agency from police source. The Joliot-Curie high school, which has around 1,700 students, has experienced strong tensions since the transfer of a teacher and unionist, Kai Terada, at the end of September. Fourteen young people had been arrested on Tuesday in the morning, following a crowd around the school, where the police presence was important. Projectiles had been launched to the police.
Monday and Tuesday, the students blocked the establishment mainly to protest against the end of the homework assistance system, but also in support of the transferred teacher and against the internal regulations and the application of the principle of secularism, according to the rectorate and a teacher interviewed by AFP.
Three young people, out of the fourteen arrested on Tuesday morning, will be summoned in December before the tribunal for guilt hearing, for aggravated violence on a person depositary of the public authority and with weapon.
” Rebuild a peaceful climate “
“It is the same process as for high school students kneeling in Mantes-la-Jolie, it is the criminalization and the repression of a high school social movement,” reacted the lawyer Arié Alimi on Wednesday, denouncing “A politico-judicial strategy that follows a member of a member of national education”.
Kai Terada, a professor of mathematics also cosecretary from Sud-Education 92, and three other teachers were recently the subject of a “mutation measure in the interest of the service [aiming] to create renewed conditions for Reconstruct a peaceful climate “within the school, according to the Academy of Versailles.
The transfer decree received by Kai Terada evokes an activity “apart from the social dialogue bodies of the normal establishment or exercise of a union activity”, according to several teaching unions, which accuse the Academy of “union discrimination” and ask for the “lifting of sanctions”.
For its part, the Academy of Versailles considers that the establishment is marked by “dysfunctions requiring the implementation of support measures to allow to find a serene working climate for students and staff”.