One of the two high school students indicted is suspected of having planned this violence and was placed in pre-trial detention, the prosecution announced on Monday.
Two high school students, arrested in Lyon after mortars were fired at a high school, were indicted. One of them, suspected of having planned this violence, was placed in pre-trial detention, the prosecution announced on Monday, November 13.
Friday morning, a group of around ten young people “hooded” had set fire to trash cans in front of the La Martinière-Monplaisir high school, located in the 8th arrondissement, and launched mortar fire, without causing any injuries.
Willingness to “block the school establishment”
Arrested at the time of the events, two 16-year-old teenagers were indicted as part of a judicial investigation opened in particular for “damage by dangerous means” And “intentional violence against a person entrusted with a public service mission without incapacity”, declared Lyon prosecutor Nicolas Jacquet.
One of them, suspected of having “participated in the organization of the violence” and for having himself set fire to garbage cans and fired mortars, was imprisoned. The other suspected of having been part of “violent group” was placed under judicial supervision, the prosecutor said in a press release. “From the first investigations and hearings, these facts appear to stem from the desire of certain students to block the school for reasons that remain to be determined,” added Nicolas Jacquet, denouncing acts “of particular gravity”.
The principal of the establishment declared that he had been “expressly intended” by this violence, which was strongly condemned by the political and academic world. One of the arrested students “had to be the subject of a disciplinary council”declared the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, on BFMTV, promising that “all means” would be used to arrest other participants.