The establishment’s forecourt was the theater this week of clashes between the police and high school students. Teachers have also been mobilized since the beginning of September against the transfer, deemed abusive, of a union professor.
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The students of the Joliot-Curie de Nanterre high school (Hauts-de-Seine) hesitate on the best way to explain their movement, after a agitated week for this establishment of 1,700 students. “You know Madam, we just want to succeed.” All claim to have wanted to claim the return of a device of homework assistance that they appreciate a lot, while some report family conditions that are not conducive to learning. A “peaceful” blockade was set up on Monday, October 10, explain high school students.
But as of Tuesday, October 11, the situation degenerates in the face of the presence of “much more” police officers than the day before, according to these students and several of their teachers. Fourteen boys are arrested, at least one of which is not a pupil of the establishment, and spend the night at the police station before which parents and supports come together, including the lawyer Arié Alimi and the deputy (Europe Ecologie-les Verts) of the Hauts-de-Seine Sabrina Sebaihi.
Three convocations are pronounced before the children’s judge for “aggravated violence against a person depositary of the public authority and with a weapon”, specifies the prosecution of Nanterre. Thursday, October 13, new tensions between police and high school students are bursting and leading to two police custody. One is lifted in the evening and the other gives rise to a convocation before the children’s judge for “aggravated voluntary violence”.
“Real suffering”
How could the Joliot-Curie high school reach, in a few days, such a level of tension? To understand this, you have to go back to the start of the school year in September, when Kai Terada, a teacher in mathematics for a long time in the establishment, learned his suspension, then his transfer “in the interest of the service”. He is an active member of the Sud-Education union, of which he is the representative for the Hauts-de-Seine.
Very quickly, Kai Terada receives support against this mutation whose reasons remain unclear to date. All teaching unions – including SGEN -CFDT and UNSA – share their concern in ministerial technical committee on September 23. A platform signed by personalities , including deputies from the new ecological and social popular union (NUPPES) and the writer Annie Ernaux – not Still Nobel Prize -, circulates online, denouncing the targeting of a teacher “recognized figure of local unionism” and his high school “on the front line of social mobilizations”.
The person concerned confirms to us having consulted his administrative file and having read nothing that could justify his transfer, against which he filed two appeals to the administrative court, including a summary interim which must be examined on October 17 .
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