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Ras-le-bol at Condorcet college in Nîmes: a squatted house generates fear and insecurity

Some of the college staff denounce a lack of security.

It is a real fed up that part of the staff of the Condorcet college in Nîmes has decided to make public through the teaching unions. Ras-le-bol face “to the insecurity of students and staff” but also “faced with the lack of response on extremely serious subjects”, denounce Pascale Bouyahmed, Marion Thomas and Camille Lacoste.

Not a year goes by without the playground or the classrooms being stoned

Indeed, on November 16, while they were walking to college, two 5th grade students were aimed at by a hooded, armed man, passing in front of the abandoned house, located rue Weber, adjoining the college. For many years, this abandoned house has been the subject of various squats and often the source of nuisance for our college. Not a year goes by without the playground or the classrooms being stoned from this place overlooking our establishment “.

A house which, according to our information, would belong to the Departmental Council and which, according to the town hall, “would be under compromise with Nexity for an entirely new real estate project”. When do teachers ask? Because, in the meantime, the problems for college students and school staff remain.

“We were also able to observe, on November 19, that the gate connecting the establishment to the house had been fractured, opening free access to our college … In this context of crisis, where the reinforced Vigipirate plan is engaged, it seems to us amazing that our college is open to the four winds. ”

It’s up to the owners of this house to fix this

Joined by telephone, the communication from the prefecture confirmed having been informed of the incident on the college girls and sent a team of the national police to the college.

“After discussion, no complaint was lodged. At our level, apart from checking the identities of the people on the squat, we cannot do anything else. It is up to the owners to do the work necessary to make the house safe. this abandoned house. “

Same story on the side of the town hall. “I took the problem to the municipal police, explains Richard Schieven, Security Assistant. Unfortunately, this is not within our competence. It’s up to the owners of this house to fix this. “

Philippe Maheu: “Like elsewhere”

The Dasen (Academic Director of National Education Services) is clear on the subject: “I trust my school leaders to inform me of the seriousness of the situations. The Condorcet college is not the most complicated. The situations denounced are common in other establishments and other cities in the public space. The aggression of the pupils on the way and the problem of the portal are not of my competence. And, for the moment, no situation criticism denounced by the head of establishment. I cannot say today that this college has particular problems. “


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