Wilfried Devillers // Photo credits: Fiora Garenzi / Hans Lucas / Hans Lucas via AFP 10:14 a.m., March 6, 2024

The Cachan comprehensive high school, in Val-de-Marne, was the target, this Tuesday, March 5, of several dozen hooded and armed individuals.

A municipal police vehicle as well as a car belonging to the town hall were stoned and then overturned.

This Wednesday, the return to school is possible, but at the cost of a significant police force.

Access to the Cachan polytechnic high school, in Val-de-Marne, was disrupted this Tuesday, March 5, by trash fires followed by projectiles thrown at the police by hooded people, facts deemed “absolutely intolerable” by police chief Laurent Nuñez.

Police officers were injured after protecting the establishment.

The hooded individuals had joined a blockade which denounced the dilapidation of the building.

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An important security system in front of the high school

This Wednesday, calm returned to the establishment, but at the cost of a significant police force.

CRS vans are parked around the high school, police officers are also present at the entrance to the establishment.

The students of the polytechnic high school declared to Europe 1 that they had never seen such a security system, nor had they witnessed such violence in front of their high school.

Asma, in second grade, came to class with some apprehension after these events.

"It got a little too bad, the young people started doing anything. My parents saw it, they told me to go back. It's worrying to see your child in places like that, with fire, young people who do anything,” said Asma.

This Wednesday morning, it is still difficult to understand the origin of this violence.

The high school students would have intended to take action, but not such a blockade.

The teachers talked to their students about it when classes were able to resume.

“We are trying to raise a little awareness among our young students. We are trying to make them aware that these events are still serious. By remaining spectators, they also encourage these acts of violence,” reported a teacher on Europe 1. The high school principal also sent an email to all the students to reassure them.