The weeks of October 10 and 17, several confrontations, sometimes very violent, between young people and police had forced the Joliot-Curie high school in Nanterre to temporarily close.
We learn this Friday that four teenagers have filed complaints for “police violence” with the General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN). “Initial investigations are underway”said the Nanterre prosecutor’s office to AFP.
Around thirty people were arrested during the weeks of October 10 and 17 during clashes between police and young people near the Joliot-Curie multi-purpose high school, which has around 1,700 students. The vast majority of them were minors, including many students educated at Joliot-Curie.
It was the abolition of homework assistance in the establishment (since restored) that had set fire to the powder, on October 10, the students had blocked the high school. The next day, clashes erupted between young people and police, the latter having been targeted by fireworks and projectiles. The violence had spread at Claude Chappe high school.
The Minister of Education had called for calm
The clashes, which continued sporadically the week of October 17
, had made the government react. The Minister of National Education Pap Ndiaye had thus declared on October 16 on RTL that it was important “to find a situation of calm” in this school, “who has been struggling for many years”.