"It looks like a joke in very bad taste."
This is how someone close to the case qualifies the impressive scene that occurred on Thursday in the Gaston-Bachelard high school in Chelles.
Backfires, shouts, smoke and young people running in all directions, in the middle of the morning, the school was in the grip of an onset of panic caused by a cardboard box filled with fireworks, ignited in a hallway by a small group of students.
A crowd widely filmed and broadcast in stride on social networks.
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Students light fireworks in a wing of the Gaston Bachelard high school in Chelles
Quickly, three young people in their final year, aged 17, were identified.
They were first excluded from high school as a precaution, before being arrested this Friday afternoon at their home by the police officers of the agglomeration police station of Chelles-Villeparisis.
They were placed in police custody for "damaging and endangering the lives of others".
A fourth student, suspected of having pressured and threatened a witness, was also arrested on Friday.
Their custody ended on Saturday morning and they were released.
They would have liked to imitate a scene seen on social networks
According to our information, these four young people were previously unknown to the police and do not have the profile of delinquents.
They would have explained that they wanted to imitate this scene that they had noticed on social networks and which had amused them.
The problem is that the joke did not make everyone laugh, far from it.
While there were no injuries, some students were shocked.
Like this young girl who had an asthma attack or like those others who believed at one time that the establishment was the target of a terrorist attack.
"There was emotion, quite legitimate, among some students who were accompanied", said Thursday on the side of the rectorate of the Créteil academy, which confirms that a complaint was filed this Friday .
On Thursday, the parents were informed of the incident via the digital workspace (ENT).
Regarding the damage, they would be “minimal”, according to the terms of the rectorate.
Only the wing of the building affected by the improvised fireworks had been evacuated.
An hour later, classes were able to resume normally.