Fireworks mortar fire targeted the Joliot-Curie high school on Monday morning, where clashes had broken down last week. A person has been arrested.
Le Monde
Fireworks mortar fire targeted on Monday morning October 17, the Joliot-Curie high school, in Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine), where scuffles between young people and police had taken place last week, Irapported a source Police, confirming information from journalist Clément Lanot. An arrest took place Monday morning following incidents that have slightly injured a police officer and degraded a vehicle from the police, according to the source.
Fireworks mortar fire also aimed at the Claude-Chappe Lycée on Monday in Nanterre, it was said at the same source.
The video of journalist Clément Lanot broadcast on Twitter shows a dozen hooded people, on the sidewalk opposite the Joliot-Curie high school, shoot fireworks to the school.
Nanterre – Tensions in progress: fire fireworks and tear gas mortars near the Joliot -Curie high school. https://t.co/fot4ykzvpn
“Following a few tensions at the start of the morning, students enter the school and courses are assured. Members of the academic prevention and security system (CAAEE) as well as regional educational inspectors are present to support the Direction and teachers, “said the Academy of Versailles.
The situation had become calm again around 10 am, noted a journalist from the France-Presse agency, nine mobile gendarmes vehicles securing the area and mediators of the city of Nanterre being present. “It’s been a week since I was able to give my students’ lessons,” said a SVT teacher leaving high school. This Monday morning, “I had to confine my students” during the mortar fire around this central high school in Nanterre, a stone’s throw from the town hall and the court.
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Joliot-Curie had strong tensions last week. The establishment was first blocked without clashes last Monday by students, scuffles broke out the next day, leading to placement in police custody of fourteen young people. The students protested mainly against the end of the homework assistance system, against the internal regulations and the framework of application of the principle of secularism, but also in support of a mutated teacher and unionist, Kai Terada.
Thursday morning, new scuffles involving around fifty young people with the face hidden according to the prefecture, had led the rectorate to close the establishment of 1,700 students on Friday.
The climate at the Lycée Joliot-Curie has been disturbed since the transfer at the end of September of Kai Terada, professor of mathematics also cosecretaire of Sud-Education 92. The transfer decree received by Kai Terada evokes an activity “outside 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 “.
A hearing is expected to take place Monday at 2 p.m. at the Administrative Court of Versailles (Yvelines) on Monday, the teacher having formed an appeal against his “forced” transfer.