Education Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer said he wanted to look at the "security diagnosis" of the Jules-Ferry school in Bessens, after the fall of one tree on two students. One of them was amputated from the leg.

The day after the fall of a tree on two students of a school of Bessens, in the Tarn-et-Garonne, the Minister of Education on Friday reminded BFM TV of the need "of a very great prudence on the set of elements that may constitute a danger in a school, college or high school ".

Focus on security diagnosis

One of the students was injured in the chest while the other was amputated leg, a fact "very unfortunate" according to Jean-Michel Blanquer, for whom "nevertheless, all that was to be done was done." He also said he wanted "to look at the safety diagnosis that was made and what he said on this tree", a safety diagnosis "that needs to be regularly updated and that falls within the competence of the communities local ".

Jules-Ferry Bessens school, which receives kindergarten and cycle 1 students, was closed on Friday "to allow the investigations of the gendarmerie" and "determine the causes of the fall of this tree", apart from elsewhere Prefecture.