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He stopped in front of Lycée Gaston-Bachelard, the recent scene of violence linked to high-school student movements

The account also reports, beyond this throwing incident against the elected official, firework mortars fired inside a classroom at the neighboring high school.

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Key facts

  • He stopped in front of Lycée Gaston-Bachelard, the recent scene of violence linked to high-school student movements. A regional councilor was struck…
  • The account also reports, beyond this projectile thrown at the elected official, fireworks mortars fired inside a classroom at the neighboring high school.
  • These events come in a context in which school blockades have become less numerous, but some high schools remain confronted with violent movements.

He stopped in front of Lycée Gaston-Bachelard, the recent scene of violence linked to high-school student movements. A regional councilor was struck full in the chest by a bottle filled with gasoline as she tried to stop young people from setting fire to trash bins.

The account also reports, beyond this projectile thrown at the elected official, fireworks mortars fired inside a classroom at the neighboring high school.

These events come in a context in which school blockades have become less numerous, but some high schools remain confronted with violent movements.

On site, Édouard Geffray met the educational team and representatives of parents. He did not see the high-school students.

At the end of this meeting, the minister left from the other side of the school.

Other remarks made in this climate contrast the bottle incident, which caused no death, with the mutilations suffered by many young people during high-school blockades.

The minister's visit thus sets face to face the condemnation of acts described as criminal and the feeling, expressed by parents, of not being heard.

Dig deeper

Who is Édouard Geffray?

A senior civil servant and former director-general of school education, he is the minister of National Education who came to meet the educational team and parents, without seeing the high-school students.

Who was Gaston Bachelard?

A French philosopher of science (1884-1962), he gives his name to the public high school outside which the minister stopped, the recent scene of violence linked to high-school student movements.

What are school blockades?

Actions by high-school students that prevent access to or the functioning of a high school in order to make a demand heard; they have become less numerous, but some schools remain the scene of violent excesses.

Why does this visit matter?

It sets side by side the condemnation of acts described as criminal — the throwing of a gasoline bottle, fireworks mortars — and parents’ feeling of not being heard, in a climate in which this incident without deaths is also contrasted with the mutilations suffered during blockades.

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