During the night of Monday to Tuesday, six classes of the public elementary school Falcucci, Bagatelle district in Toulouse, were vandalized for the second time in ten days. Overturned desks, emptied cupboards whose contents have been strewn on the floor, paint from the plastic art room spilled, “the perpetrators went so far as to defecate in the classrooms“Indignant Louis Alberici, assistant to the inspector of the Haute-Garonne academy for the first degree. He went to the bedside of teachers and parents of students on Tuesday morning.
“It’s a meticulous act of vandalism, everything is upside down, everything is on the ground, equipment is broken. What emerges from the teaching team is an immense sadness, an immense weariness to see their work swept away for the second time in a row. – Louis Alberici, assistant to the academy inspector
The school remains open with care for children, but until the classes are restored, parents are asked to keep their children at home. To enhance security and prevent any intrusion into the establishment, a security guard from the rectorate’s mobile security team is present at check-in and check-out times students. The town hall has set up a night watchman and the rounds of the municipal and national police are intensified in the sector.
Shocked and worried parents
In front of the establishment, mothers of students met this Wednesday say to themselves “revolted“, the children are sad, some are afraid they tell us. “Equipment had already been degraded ten days ago, it had to be bought back and it is again unusable“, regrets a delegated parent. A mother of two children in elementary school calls for the installation of CCTV cameras in order to be able to identify intrusions and to reassure parents.
An investigation entrusted to the restraint of damage to property
The town hall of Toulouse filed a complaint twice and an investigation is underway, entrusted to the property crime brigade. From Tuesday morning and the discovery of the rampage, the scientific police proceeded to record traces and clues. There would be no theft of equipment observed, no message was left on the spot, according to our information. All assumptions are open regarding the mobile. Are the authors former students of the school? Is this gratuitous degradation, an act of revenge? It seems that there are no traces of burglarythe perpetrators would have found a way to break into the school without setting off an alarm.