No visible security device, or static police presence at the entrance to the Bergson-Jacquard high school.
But four people posted at the entrance gate who closely monitor the arrival of the students ... In the aftermath of the knife fight during which a 17-year-old teenager attending school in the establishment was seriously injured, classes resumed , almost normally, this Tuesday morning in the vast school city in the heart of the 19th century.
On Monday, shortly after noon, a high school student from Rabelais - an establishment in the 18th arrondissement closed at the start of the year for dilapidation and whose students were distributed to other surrounding high schools - was very violently attacked in a small street nearby from the Jaurès metro station.
Less than 200 meters from the Bergson high school where he had just graduated.
Very seriously affected, he was evacuated to hospital with a vital prognosis.
According to our information, he was still in a worrying state on Tuesday.
A listening unit set up
“As soon as we were notified, we took all the necessary measures for the safety of everyone, pupils, students and staff.
A police presence has been assigned to us to secure the surroundings of the establishment.
It will be maintained over time, ”said the principal of the school in a letter, from Monday evening, to parents and high school students.
"A listening cell will be made available from Tuesday (room J229)", specified in the wake of an email sent to the establishment's internal messaging system.
"I don't think I'm going to go," said a first year student who waits in front of the gate before class resumes.
Like many of Bergson's other teenagers, he, of course, heard of the brawl the night before.
But he did not know the victim and does not make a connection between the bloody fight and a possible violent climate in the school.
"It looks more like a city muddle", loose the young man, specifying that the victim "comes from Rabelais.
No Bergson.
"
" It's certain.
It's a little scary to think that it happened very close to here.
But it was not in high school, "continues a young girl who rereads on her smartphone articles devoted to the assault.
“Monday, at the beginning of the afternoon, the cops came to check the bags of all the returning students.
Maybe to make sure they didn't have a blade!
», Believes another teenager… already inside the establishment at the time of the controls.
"These guys from the 19th century did that"
He also puts forward the hypothesis of events outside the school.
“These guys from the 19th century did that.
Finally, not students of Bergson, I mean, ”continues the high school student who suggests phenomena of rivalry between gangs.
The stabbed teenager was until now unknown to the police.
Three suspected assailants were arrested after the assault.
They were still in custody on Tuesday.
"Even if this fight has no connection with the establishment, it is still very surprising not to see the police near the school," notes a father who exceptionally accompanied his daughter, and a friend of this one, both college girls, to the school gate.
Two minutes earlier, a police car passed at a low speed in front of the school complex.
“So much the better.
But I expected a more visible presence.
At least for two or three days, ”concludes the father.