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Nanterre: Joliot-Curie tensions spread

2022-10-17T14:00:45.197Z


New scuffles broke out on Monday in front of two high schools. Five minors were arrested.


The week begins as the previous one ended in Nanterre: with violence.

This Monday morning, new tensions erupted in front of the Joliot-Curie high school.

On both sides of avenue Frédéric and Irène Joliot-Curie, several young people faced police officers dispatched to the scene.

The scenario repeated itself: jets of tear gas responded to fireworks mortar fire.

The clashes lasted an hour before calm returned.

Three youths were eventually arrested.

Last week, it all started with a peaceful blockade at Joliot-Curie against the backdrop of specific demands: strengthening homework assistance and support for a transferred teacher before the mobilization degenerated.

This Monday morning, these scuffles spread and spread to the Claude-Chappe vocational school, on the Mont-Valérien plateau.

In addition to the now classic mortar fire, at least one car and garbage cans were set on fire.

Two other young people, here again minors, were apprehended.

At the end of the morning, it was not known whether the five arrested were high school students or elements outside the two establishments in Nanterre.

At the end of the tensions, the high school students were able to enter their high schools and lessons were to be held in the afternoon, according to the Versailles rectorate.

At Joliot-Curie, members of the academic center for assistance to schools and establishments, prevention system, as well as regional pedagogical inspectors are present to support management and teachers.

“The tensions outside are due to elements external to the school.

The climate in the establishment is calm, ”we are assured within the Academy.

Source: leparis

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