The fire ravaged part of a nursery school in a popular district of Lille on Thursday evening, according to firefighters who were "attacked on their arrival".
According to the emergency services, it was residents who called them around 8:15 p.m., claiming to have seen people enter the Béranger-Hachette school, located in the Faubourg de Béthune district, then to have seen smoke emanating from it. .
Some pretty impressive images were posted on Twitter.
#Lille Here are the first images of the #pompiers from the Littré centers upon their arrival on the scene, following the fire at the nursery school on rue Léon Blum.
@ prefet59 @ departement59 @jhoussin pic.twitter.com/ceCRnK35Ru
- SDIS 59 (@ Sdis59) April 22, 2021
People fired fireworks mortars in the direction of firefighters once there, according to the same source.
The fire swept through about "a third" of the establishment, which was closed for an "indefinite" period.
It should not open Monday for the start of the school year, says the Voix du Nord.
A thanked motorist
“Arson this evening in a school in Lille.
I strongly condemn this act which attacks a place so essential for children, a place of education and emancipation, a living symbol of the Republic, ”Martine Aubry was indignant on Twitter, while the firefighters intend to file complaint.
Arson this evening in a school in Lille.
I strongly condemn this act which attacks a place so essential for children, a place of education and emancipation, a living symbol of the Republic.
- Martine Aubry (@MartineAubry) April 22, 2021
According to the Voix du Nord, the track of a voluntary act is indeed already favored by the investigators.
On Twitter, the departmental fire and rescue service also thanked a motorist "
who went to the attackers to ask them to stop ”.