Wilfried Devillers / Photo credit: XOSE BOUZAS / HANS LUCAS / HANS LUCAS VIA AFP 8:07 p.m., March 5, 2024

Hooded individuals armed with Molotov cocktails attacked the Cachan comprehensive high school, in Val-de-Marne, this Tuesday morning.

Trash cans were burned and law enforcement officers attacked.

But for now, the reason for this surge of violence remains difficult to pin down.

Difficult to understand what really happened.

The Cachan comprehensive high school, in Val-de-Marne, was targeted this Tuesday by several hooded individuals armed with Molotov cocktails.

This group, of around twenty people, set fire to trash cans and attacked the police.

A 17-year-old boy was arrested, but the circumstances surrounding this outburst of violence still remain unclear. 

The only certainty: everything started from a desire to block the establishment.

A little before 8 a.m., the hooded individuals padlocked several access gates to the high school before the demonstration degenerated into scuffles.

In a video published on X, we can see around ten masked people turning over a municipal vehicle at the end of the street.

A tense context 

While on his way to class, Nils witnessed the events from afar.

"A lot of trash cans were burning in front of the school entrance. There was a huge crowd around the door. Then, there was a lot of commotion. The national police arrived and they started throwing projectiles at the police ", testifies the young man. 

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Scuffles occurred in a tense context within the establishment.

For several weeks, teachers have been denouncing the unsanitary conditions of the building.

But for this professor, the violent actions of the morning are not directly linked to this discontent.

“I think that this idea of ​​mobilization was taken up by people who, out of opportunism, launched this idea of ​​blockade with violent intentions and whose membership in the high school is absolutely not proven.”

Security will be reinforced around the establishment, announced the Paris police prefect, Laurent Nuñez.