A "dead college" operation paralyzed a Strasbourg institution Tuesday after the intrusion in early October of teenagers who threatened a teacher with a dummy weapon, teachers and parents of students denouncing an explosive situation, sources said. concordant.
Death threats
On 4 October, three "minors under 15 years" entered the College Jacques-Twinger and pointed a fake weapon on a teacher who asked them to leave the premises, told AFP a source close to the file. The investigation against them was opened including death threats, said this source. One of the teenagers launched "we will kill you all" to the teacher, told AFP Sylvain Thouvenot, professor of SVT and representative of the staff. "Our colleague is still on sick leave and the whole educational community is in shock."
"We are frustrated to hear that it was a dummy weapon, so far we are not able to say that the young person did not present the weapon to the police," he said. Brahim Maameri, from the Association of Parents and Students of Strasbourg and the Eurometropolis.
Parents demand additional CPE
In this college, ranked REP in the popular district of Koenigshoffen west of Strasbourg, only a handful of young people were welcomed Tuesday, after parents' students had called Monday not to come to class. "This is not an event that has come out of nowhere, it is the consequences of not taking care of grievances," said Brahim Maameri. The parents of the college students ask for a Senior Advisor of additional education. They denounce the saturation of this college and would like, in the longer term, that another institution be built in the neighborhood.
"The college is the funnel that recovers a lot of problems in the neighborhood", a neighborhood that is experiencing a high population growth, points out Sylvain Thouvenot, regretting that the rectorate "told us not to make waves, not to to rouse the press ". Parents 'and teachers' representatives were due to meet with the school inspector late Tuesday afternoon.
On Monday, the Rectorate assured in a statement to have supported the establishment through the sending of a "mobile security team" to monitor access and setting up a "listening cell". The Lower Rhine County Council has meanwhile set up a videophone on October 10, "to limit in the future the possibility of incidents of this type", according to the rectorate.