The shots took place shortly after 10 hours, in response to two police arrests which dispersed a group of young people wearing hoods and dressed in black parked opposite the high school, on the forecourt of the Town Hall.
Le Monde with AFP
New fireworks shots have enamelled the morning, Tuesday, October 18, near the Joliot-Curie high school in Nanterre, a place of scuffles since last week between high school students, young people from the outside and police, A noted a journalist from the France-Presse agency on site.
Fireworks mortar fire, in several directions, took place shortly after 10 hours, in response to two police arrests which dispersed a group of young people wearing hoods and dressed in black parked opposite the high school, on the forecourt of the town hall. Until then, the situation had been calm, with in particular a strong presence of the mediators of the city of Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine), still according to this journalist.
“It’s anything, they wanted to target the cops but shot in our direction, we were too afraid with my friends,” said a “shocked” high school student. “We have to do a few ultras (…) who provoke the police,” said Jean-Pierre Bellier, the deputy mayor of Nanterre in charge of educational action, on site:
“These react (…) with measure I find this morning, in comparison with what we saw other times.”
four young people summoned for “aggravated violence”
Monday, mortar fire had broken out around the establishment as well as to the neighboring vocational high school, Claude-Chappe. Five minors had been placed in police custody. Last week, scuffles between young people and police had led a total of sixteen placements in police custody of young people, four of whom were summoned on the 1 December before the children’s court for “aggravated violence”.
Monday, October 10, high school students began a protest movement against the end of the homework assistance system, against the internal regulations and the framework for applying the principle of secularism, but also in support of a teacher and trade unionist MUTE, KAI TERADA. Tuesday October 11, they had blocked the high school for a few hours.
The climate of this establishment has been disturbed since the transfer at the end of September of Kai Terada, professor of mathematics also cosecretary of Sud-Education 92. The transfer decree evokes an activity “outside the social dialogue bodies of The establishment or normal exercise of a union activity “, according to several teaching unions.
The Minister of National Education, Pap Ndiaye, had mentioned on October 15 “a high school which has a certain number of dysfunctions for a long time” and mentioned “a report of the general inspection in February-March [having] concluded to a number of actions to take and which have been taken by the Rectorate of Versailles “at the microphone of the” Grand Jury “of RTL-Le Figaro-Lci.