Five hundred students found themselves blocked in front of the school, one of them, suspected of having participated in the damage and known to the law, was arrested and placed in police custody.
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A high school in Vénissieux (Rhône) was targeted on the morning of Thursday October 3 at 8 a.m. by around a hundred students, some of them hooded, franceinfo learned from police sources and the Rhône prefecture. “Throws of pyrotechnic projectiles were carried out in front of the Sembat-Seguin school complex, at the entrance level,” specifies the prefecture in a press release. “Shopping carts, self-service bicycles and a car parked nearby were set on fire, damaging the enclosure and entrance gates”it is written in this press release. “Three individuals suspected of having taken part in this malicious act have been identified”adds the prefecture.
Five hundred students found themselves blocked in front of the school, one of them, suspected of having participated in the damage and known to the law, was arrested and placed in police custody. According to a source close to the matter at franceinfo, the facts took place when a meeting between teachers and parents was to be held Thursday evening to exclude students from the high school. When they intervened, the police had to use a tear gas grenade to disperse the students. According to this source, the high school videos are being exploited.
“The incidents reported in front of the Sembat-Seguin school complex in Vénissieux are unacceptablewrote the prefect of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and Rhône region on the social network X. The rector and the prefect of Rhône strongly condemn these incidents and provide their support to the teachers, the staff of the establishment as well as the students.. The prefecture adds that “sanctions will be taken as soon as possible against the troublemakers”.