A police source, confirming information from journalist Clement Lanot, said fireworks were fired at the Joliot-Curie high school in Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine) on Monday morning, where clashes between young people and police. An arrest occurred on Monday morning following incidents that slightly injured a police officer and damaged a police vehicle, according to the source. The fireworks mortar fire also targeted Claude-Chappe High School in Nanterre on Monday, the same source said.
The video by journalist Clément Lanot posted on Twitter shows a dozen hooded people on the sidewalk in front of the Joliot-Curie high school, shooting fireworks towards the school.
“Following some tensions in the early morning, the students enter the school and the lessons are guaranteed. Members of the Academic Prevention and Safety System (CAAEE) and regional pedagogical inspectors are present to support the management and teachers, “said the Academy of Versailles. The situation had calmed down around 10 am, with the presence nine mobile vehicles of the gendarmerie who secured the area and mediators from the Municipality of Nanterre.
Support for teacher Kai Terada
“I haven’t been able to teach my students for a week,” explains an SVT teacher after leaving high school. This Monday morning “I had to lock up my students” during the mortar fire near this central high school in Nanterre, a stone’s throw from the Hôtel de Ville and the courthouse. “It looks like a movie! It was impressive, I saw kids hit on the ground, “said a sophomore.
Joliot-Curie High School experienced great tension last week. The facility was blocked for the first time without clashes by students last Monday, but the next day rioting broke out that led to the arrest of 14 young people. The students protested mainly against the end of the homework assistance system, against the procedural rules and the framework for applying the principle of secularism, but also in support of a transferred teacher and trade unionist, Kai Terada.
Thursday morning, a new fight involving about fifty young people with hidden faces according to the prefecture, had led the rectorate to close the school of 1,700 students on Friday. The climate at the Joliot-Curie high school is troubled by the transfer at the end of September of Kai Terada, a mathematics teacher who is also co-secretary of Sud Éducation 92.
The transfer order received by Kai Terada evokes an activity “outside the establishment’s social dialogue bodies or the normal exercise of a trade union activity”, according to several teachers’ unions who accuse the academy of “trade union discrimination. and demand the “cancellation of the sanctions.” The hearing should take place on Monday at 2 pm at the administrative court of Versailles (Yvelines), having the teacher challenged his “forced” transfer.
