2023-06-21 22:13:45
Who lived or worked at number 277 rue Saint-Jacques, the building blown up by a violent explosion late Wednesday afternoon in the 5th arrondissement of Paris? The building housed the Paris American Academy, a school of design and fashion founded by an American musician, Richard Roy, in 1965, which welcomes dozens of foreign students, mostly Americans, each year.
“We have no news”
“The Paris American Academy has been providing world-class education for over fifty years, sharing a love of fashion, interior design, creative writing and the arts,” explains the institution’s website. The teaching philosophy aims to stimulate the creativity and imagination of students, by teaching them the know-how and tools necessary for their development in the professional world. »
Among the four people with a vital prognosis and the 33 additional injured, not counting the missing people, two for the moment, how many were in the premises of Val-de-Grâce, in “a listed building dating from the 17th century and recently renovated” , according to the school’s website? A former pupil of the school, contacted by 20 Minutessaid Wednesday evening that he had “received no response” from students, teachers or administrative staff he had tried to reach by phone.
Asked by The Parisian, Michel Denis, director of the Schola cantorum, a renowned music school located in an adjacent building, and himself blown by the explosion “over three meters”, confirms that he has no news from his colleagues at the American school: “We are very worried. They are friends. We call them and they don’t answer. Between this school and ours, there is the church of Val-de-Grâce and the Maison de l’enseignement catholique. But we know them well. »
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