The educational community is in shock.
This Tuesday, a PE teacher from the professional high school Jean-Baptiste-Corot, in Beauvais, was attacked by one of his students at the end of the morning.
According to the first elements of the investigation, the young man aged 15 would have punched and threatened his teacher with death, after the latter "asked him to take off his cap and his banana to enter the gymnasium" , specifies a policeman.
After the intervention of the other students to put an end to the altercation, the defendant was arrested and placed in police custody.
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As for the victim, aged about forty, she was slightly injured.
"The damage is mainly psychological," said one of her colleagues.
Contacted, the lawyer of the high school student, Me Domitille Risbourg, indicated that his client was "willing to answer all questions and speak out on the facts that he is accused of".
A confrontation is due to take place shortly between the victim and the alleged perpetrator.
“The teacher lodged a complaint and functional protection will be granted to him by the rector.
At the request of the rectorate, a mobile security team is present in the establishment ", reacted for its part the academy of Amiens ensuring that" everything will be implemented so that the establishment regains the serenity and calm conducive to learning ”.
A listening cell will also be set up this Wednesday.
A childcare center assaulted a week earlier
On the teachers' side, we invoke the right of withdrawal.
Because according to an educational staff, it is the second assault in the space of a week in the enclosure of this technological high school.
On November 23, a senior education advisor (CPE) was allegedly taken to task by a student who had just received an hour of glue.
"She was beaten and thrown to the ground," relates this source.
She had the t-shirt torn, it's telling you violence ”.
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Facts which occur in a context of tension within the school establishment, linked to "conflicts between young people of Méru and Beauvais", indicates a police officer, without making any link with the attacks against the teaching body.
Last Thursday, clashes took place in front of the Corot high school where several mortar fire was observed.
On this occasion, a young person was also arrested in possession of a bladed weapon, possibly a katana.
“It's starting to do a lot,” breathes a teacher, worried but not surprised.
"We told them that it was getting worse and worse and that it was going to end badly"
“In October, we had already alerted the rectorate to discuss the various tensions linked to the lack of resources and too many classes, made up of many students from disadvantaged neighborhoods.
We had told them that it was getting worse and worse and that it was going to end badly, ”continues the latter.
This is not the first time that such facts have occurred at Lycée Corot.
In April 2019, a teacher had his jaw broken by a student he had just asked to remove his cap.
Tried by the Beauvais court for "willful violence against a person charged with a public service mission", he was sentenced to 6 months suspended prison sentence.
This Monday, it was at the Lycée Montaigne in Paris (6th arrondissement) that a mathematics teacher was violently struck by a 15-year-old student.
