- The video of a police officer intervening in a high school, tear gas canister in hand, aroused much indignation on Twitter, suggesting that the police supervised the holding of the bac exams.
- The police did intervene in the Hélène Boucher high school in Paris after overflows, but did not force the students to compose the tests.
- The agent present on the video, who seems hooded, is not recognizable.
What is this hooded policeman doing, tear gas canister in his hand, inside the Lycée Hélène Boucher in Paris? This is the question posed by many Internet users this Thursday after the publication on Twitter of a video filmed in this establishment in the 20th arrondissement. In the images, the official, whose eyes can be seen, cranes in the hall, in front of a handful of students.
What is this hooded policeman doing, gas tear in hand, inside the Lycée Hélène Boucher in Paris?
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Other photos show the presence of police in the hall or at the gates of the school. In publications, several people also claim that the police force forced the students to take their E3C tests.
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This Thursday morning, several high school students protested against the holding of these new E3Cs, while that of LV2 was taking place. "We first did a sit-in in front of the school, we were approximately fifty first graders, it was done in absolute calm," says a high school student contacted by 20 Minutes .
Action by Helene Boucher's high school students against E3C # E3C # Bac2020 #BacBlanquer # StopE3C # greve6fevrier pic.twitter.com/gpcqmQK2Sy
- Last of Cordée (@DCordee) February 6, 2020"At the stroke of the 9 o'clock, my comrades and I returned to the school and decided to do a sit-in on the main staircase," continues the teenager. Around 9:30 a.m., the calm was broken and the students decided to go to the classrooms and the corridors. Smoke and firecrackers are launched, a window is broken, admits the student.
For its part, the Paris rectorate, contacted by 20 Minutes , evokes a "risk of crowd movements and accidents". He claims that the group of students has created real "chaos in the corridors and stairwells" and that the student who broke the window was injured. “Some professors who supervised in the rooms where the tests were to take place were so afraid that they put themselves in a position of" intrusion defense ". It was to deal with this danger, which the staff could not control, that the headmistress called the police, ”said the Paris academy, adding that a complaint had been made.
Evacuation in calm and canceled tests
Once there, a dozen police officers then removed the students from the common areas of the school. "We obviously evacuated the establishment in peace, reports the high school student. There was no overflow. The police did not force them to pass the E3C. Besides, the LV2 checks took place, with only "half of the pupils", indicates the rectorate. The history-geography tests scheduled for the afternoon have been canceled.
Police therefore entered the establishment well, particularly in the hall and the courtyard. They also posted themselves at the entrance, as various photographs show.
#Crs in front of the Lycée Hélène Boucher this Thursday morning February 6. It is certainly not the #dictatorship, but it is a bit authoritarian education by CRS, right? And freedom of expression is somewhat constrained, right? #lyceens # E3C #violencepolicieres pic.twitter.com/2pR44uDxrm
- Jacques Guilbert 🌿 (@JacGuilbert) February 7, 2020Among these police officers, some had concealed their faces. The one whose video has been widely circulated on social networks also appears in a photograph taken outside. The image, sharper, shows that he is not wearing a hood, but a cap screwed very low on the forehead and a neck warmer up to the eyelids, hence the confusion. A camouflage that does not make him recognizable, especially since he does not seem to carry his Rio identification number either.
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The student interviewed reports that there was no violent act, but deplores this situation. "The presence of these armed police in the establishment was quite oppressive, it is not normal for the police to come to find themselves in a school establishment and their presence is almost systematic during the blockades," says T -he.
Another high school girl tells us, with the photo in support, that mediators "who looked like security guards" were in the corridors early in the morning to "watch" them. The students had been informed of their presence by the director of the school the day before. The message that 20 Minutes was able to consult indicates that a “mobile team of mediators has been made available to the establishment by the Ile-de-France region […] owner of the buildings and as such concerned by the safety of premises and that of the pupils and staff working there ”.
Contacted, the Paris Prefecture of Police had not followed up on 20 Minutes at the time of the publication of our article.
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