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A high school in Isère has been at a standstill since Monday.

The establishment of Vizille, south of Grenoble, is paralyzed due to a gathering of students having slipped and having resulted in the arrest of a young man of 17 years.

The entire high school teaching staff went on strike on Tuesday, we learned from the rectorate.

Initiated by about thirty students wishing to protest against instructions from the management on the clothing of high school girls, the rally gathered Monday morning about 250 young people according to the gendarmerie.

A car located in a parking lot next to one of the entrances to the establishment was set on fire.

A second outbreak of fire, observed later in one of the school's sanitary facilities, triggered the fire alarm and the evacuation of all the buildings.

One of the two identified perpetrators of the fires, a 17-year-old young man attending high school, was arrested and interviewed on Monday after the rally.

Patrols have since been set up by the Vizille gendarmerie near the school to "secure the entry and exit of students".

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The rectorate calls for "appeasement and dialogue"

“The teachers welcomed the students on Tuesday morning but they did not take their lessons.

We call for appeasement and dialogue, ”indicates the rectorate of the Grenoble academy, which has just organized several meetings on site to resolve the situation.

A few days earlier, a terminal student who had written to the head of the school to denounce his clothing instructions addressed to high school girls, had received, by mistake, an offensive response from a person "who is no longer in activity. within National Education ”, specified the rectorate.

Then posted on social networks, the email in question “motivated the gathering of high school students”.

“The young woman did not file a complaint.

If she changes her mind, we will support her in her process, ”said the rectorate.

Two separate inquiries have been opened to shed light on the two arson attacks and the email that followed the incidents on Monday.

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