This Monday, the city of Nanterre (Haute-de-Seine) was the scene of new incidents. Early in the morning near the Vocational High School of Claude-Champ, “About thirty people fired mortars, burned cars and garbage cans. The police quickly intervened.”shows Figaro Aux de Saint Prefecture. “It is likely that some of the group then joined others at the Lycée Joliot-Curie.” Around 9 o’clock in the morning, mortars with fireworks were launched in the direction of the institution’s gates. Clashes took place between the police using tear gas and the young people present, who were far from all educated at Joliot-Curie. “There are young people from the surrounding suburbs who, taking advantage of the situation, come to make a fist”, laments a teacher. Five minors, some high school students, have been taken into police custody, shows Figaro on Nanterre’s parquet floor. Two policemen were slightly injured, and the police car was damaged “Pretty Damaged”.
Then the atmosphere calmed down. By the end of the morning, the police were numerous around the secondary school of Joliot-Curie, while the students were gathered in small groups here and there, surrounded by the mediators from the city of Nanterre. “The situation in the government is calm.”assures the rectory of Versailles, which adds that it has placed “Members of the Center for Academic Support for Schools and Institutions (CAAEE) as well as regional superintendents to support teachers and management.”. This device will be updated in the next few days.
On Twitter, the president of the Ile-de-France region, Valerie Pecrese, announced herself. “extremely concerned about the increase in violence.” and called back “Peace and Tranquility”. Last week was already marked by a fight. On Monday, October 10, the students organized a blockade, which turned into clashes with the police the next day. 14 young people were arrested. The tension has not subsided, and on Thursday, two more young men were arrested in their turn. Four of these young men will be judged by 1eh in juvenile court in December for “arming violence against public authorities”;
Controversial teacher transfer
The current incidents are just the latest tell-tale signs of the noxious climate that has reigned for months at the 1,700-student high school. In the first semester of 2022, the Rectory of Versailles asks the General Inspectorate of Education, Sports and Research (Igesr) to “take inventoryAbout the situation at Nanter Joliot-Curie High School due to “multiple and old faults“.
Following the IGESR report, various measures are being taken at the start of the 2022 academic year. The rectorate also decided to transfer four teachers.”in the interest of the service“. Among them is Kai Terada, a math teacher at Joliot-Curie High School for many years and an active SUD-Education activist. The transfer of Kai Terada is strongly contested, first of all by the director concerned, who appealed this decision examined this Monday by the Administrative Court of Versailles, as well as by Joliot-Curie and his colleagues in the trade unions, who condemn “Anti-Union Repression”.
On October 10, students enter the dance. If their movementshows unwavering support for Kai Terada“Their main demands are elsewhere.back homework“and”put an immediate end to the authoritarian excesses of governance“According to a flyer distributed by the high school student life council. The rectory of Versailles, in turn, also causes “supportfrom students to teacher but alsoconcerns about high school organization, undergraduate assessment methods, homework support, pedagogical organization, and the procedure and scope of application of the principle of secularism;“.
“We must enforce the law”
This last cause caused a lot of ink flow. Were the students’ demands to wear religious clothing, particularly abayas and windbreakers? There is no mention of going in this direction in the flyers of the high school students. Some students and teachers also condemn “instrumentation“. But on the spot the disciples questioned Le Figaro without hesitation to address this topic. “Girls started wearing baggy outfits and they weren’t allowed“Sleeps Camille educated first. “An argument took place between a teacher and a student wearing an abaya. Everyone was shocked. Thus began the blockade– emphasizes Fatima, a final year student.
According to a memo from the Prefectural Intelligence Department of the Police (DRPP), which was released The Express , secularism is indeed a hot topic in the establishment. The 2021-2022 academic year had “has already been marked by tensions in applying the principles of secularism in high school“, emphasizes the DPR, which adds that at the beginning of the 2022-2023 academic year, twice young girlstried to enter school in abaya“.
Sunday, during Grand Jury RTL-LCILe Figaro Minister Pap Ndiaye was specially questioned in the Lycée Joliot-Curie case. He referred to a “a number of faults, including wearing religious garb“. “The law must apply in this institution as elsewhere. Sanctions are possible, but first a dialogue with students and families. There is no reason for this high school to be more flexible or more tolerant than any institution“, insisted the tenant on Grenell Street.
Source: Le Figaro
