A neighborhood plagued by drug trafficking, where hooded men and "weapons of war" circulate . A young man killed by gun on Sunday evening. And then, Monday, the "attack alert" triggered after a school intrusion. In Nîmes, the town hall took a radical decision, "a first" in this context: two schools in an underprivileged district have been "relocated" , temporarily, to a quieter area.
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Since Thursday, the students of the Georges-Bruguier school group - an elementary school and a kindergarten - have been teaching in airy centers, a few kilometers away. Shuttles take them there. "It was a case of conscience to drop out of school, because the public school must be present all over the national territory, but we were worried about the children, and the teaching team was very shaken too," explains Christophe Boissier, the director of the elementary school. Monday, it was he who activated the “intrusion attack” alarm : an individual had entered
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