• The State is studying the construction of accommodation in the visitors' car park of the Arago high school.

  • The land in question is behind the high school gates but belongs to the University of Nantes, and therefore to the State.

"Do not touch my high school", "no residence in the school of confidence" ... Since the beginning of the week, anger messages have been displayed at the entrance of the vocational high school Arago, an establishment of 400 students located in two steps from the Recteur-Schmitt tram station, north of Nantes. The banners are the work of parents and staff, united in their opposition to a housing construction project on the school site. The prefecture is in fact studying the possibility of installing around a hundred accommodation for "refugees, young workers and students," she said.

These four-storey modular buildings would be located on the site of the current visitor parking lot, on a plot belonging to the university, and therefore to the State. It is not located "in the school" but "on the outskirts", argues the prefecture. However, the chosen site is adjacent to the rooms and workshops of the school and requires crossing the gates of the establishment to gain access.

"The prefect plays on words, denounces Gaëtan Papillon, teacher and co-secretary of the CGT educ 44 union. The problem is not the issue of migrants but the presence of housing for adults within the establishment.

This is not the place for that at all!

A high school should remain only a place of learning.

Students need to be supported in a stable and neutral environment.

Opponents of the project, who have received support from the regional council, also criticize "the lack of consultation" on the part of the state.

"Sometimes scandalous allegations"

Their message seems to have been heard. Asked this Wednesday by 

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, the prefecture of Loire-Atlantique considers unfounded the statements of opponents, while announcing that the project is finally suspended. "As with any feasibility study, there is no opening schedule at this stage," says one in the entourage of the prefect Didier Martin. Taking into account the untruths, rumors and sometimes scandalous allegations which circulate concerning this feasibility study, the prefect decided with the rector to temporarily put "in brackets" the realization of this study. "

Relieved by the news, the staff and parents of Arago students still decided to demonstrate this Thursday noon in front of the high school gates.

“Suspended does not mean canceled, reacts Gaëtan Papillon.

We maintain the mobilization.

Everyone thinks this project is inconsistent.

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