The bac, option delinquency?
Since Monday, high school students have been blocking establishments;
some students are calling for the elimination of the tests still scheduled for face-to-face in June.
But throughout the week, several serious incidents hit the headlines.
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Last Tuesday, a high school student was first arrested by the police on the sidelines of the blockade of the Gabriel Touchard high school in Le Mans (Sarthe).
Aged 16, the young man had concocted a bottle with hydrochloric acid and aluminum, the mixture of which produces a powerful explosion.
Wednesday, in Saint-Nazaire (Loire-Atlantique), clashes took place between a hundred high school students and police.
Four officials were injured by projectile throws.
In a posted video, a young man is seen aiming a police car at point blank range.
The fireworks mortars were also out.
On Monday, in front of the blocked d'Alembert high school in Aubervilliers (Seine-Saint-Denis), four young people fired while the police were busy re-establishing traffic blocked by trash cans.
Even more worrying scene this Thursday, in Montataire (Oise), in front of the André-Malraux high school.
Pyrotechnic devices were fired in the direction of the Senior Education Advisor (CPE).
Bottles filled with gasoline, which can be used to make molotov cocktails were also found.
According to the investigators, quoted by
Le Parisien, "it is more the high school that was targeted [than a person in particular], perhaps in the line of protest movements"
.
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This discontent against the 2021 bac is not "
so massive"
, explains Florence Delannoy, deputy general secretary of SNPDEN, the union of management staff of National Education.
“
Three or four young people come to set fire to garbage cans in front of the establishments, I call them delinquents.
They have nothing to do with any movement, ”
she points out.
"There is a trivialization of violence, which has increased in intensity, whatever the type of demonstrations
"
,
reacts Denis Jacob, general secretary of the Alternative Police union.
Individuals outside high schools
Some individuals seem to take advantage of blockades to perpetrate their violence.
In the Montataire shooting case, a teenager was arrested: he is not a student at the establishment.
In the confrontation of Saint-Nazaire, one of the two people arrested is a 38-year-old woman, far from her “high school years”.
"
There is a firm desire to physically attack the police and gendarmes,"
laments the police officer.
“
It is very often the act of individuals who come together and who are not concerned by the reasons for the demonstrations, including among students.
Before, we did not see that,
”he notes.
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Michel Fize, a sociologist specializing in adolescence also wants to differentiate "
the students who are committed to obtaining the best possible scenario for their diploma, who will demonstrate without violence, and all those who rush into the breach [...]
who take advantage of the event to deliver their resentment, their anger, and smash the cop
”. He sees in it the mark of a "
drift of mores [...] against a background of dominant individualism
". “No-limit” violence.