2023-08-22 17:26:14
Gabriel Attal during a visit to a school in Saint-Denis, Reunion, August 17, 2023. RICHARD BOUHET / AFP
Of the thirteen schools “particularly degraded” during the riots at the start of the summer, five will not be able to reopen at the start of the school year, announced Tuesday August 22 the Minister of Education and Youth, Gabriel Attal, during a visit to the Champollion elementary school, in the popular district of Grésilles, in Dijon.
According to the minister’s count, 250 establishments suffered damage. Among them, sixty “have been the subject of a fire outbreak”et “thirteen of them were particularly degraded”.
These degradations were perpetrated during the riots which followed the death of the young Nahel in Nanterre at the end of June.
The five establishments which will not reopen at the start of the school year are the Jean-Zay nursery schools in Mâcon; Robert-Desnos in Petit-Quevilly (Seine-Maritime); Etang-des-Noës in La Verrière (Yvelines) and elementary schools Marguerite-Perey (Strasbourg) and Bois-de-l’Etang (La Verrière).
“Other schooling solutions”
In total, these establishments hosted “around 650” schoolchildren, detailed Gabriel Attal during a press briefing. “Other schooling solutions” have been found for these schools, assured the Minister. “It will be a viable solution”he said, with transport provided by bus to another school, for example.
Just over 12 million schoolchildren, college and high school students in France are due to return to class in September, in nearly 60,000 public or private establishments.
The establishment visited by the Minister had also been targeted by an incendiary device on July 1 and a classroom had been completely destroyed. But the start of the school year for its 182 students can be done on time, “without lag”promised the director of the school, Michel Hautin, after showing the burnt classroom.
These damages led to the opening of a preliminary investigation ” ongoing “according to the prosecution.
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