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A woman in Villeurbanne (Rhône) tried to arrest a group of young people who were about to attack a school, Thursday June 29. Finally, the establishment was robbed, but still stands.
In Villeurbanne (Rhône), around 10:45 p.m., Thursday June 29, fires have been multiplying since the beginning of the evening when a gang of around twenty individuals decides to attack a nursery school. A single woman intervenes. “School Please. Not School”, She cries. His courage impresses and has made it possible to limit the damage, although today the establishment had to remain closed for the time of the forensic surveys under the gaze of shocked parents and teachers.
“I can’t understand all this hate”
“I see that with kicks, they force a door of the school and there, my blood did not turn, for me we do not attack a school”, explains the heroine of the evening. She says she tried to reason with them, begged them not to do anything at the school, but the rioters came in, robbed the school. Then the tone goes up a notch: “I kept begging them. A young man turned his mortar towards me and I couldn’t believe it. I didn’t think he would take action”, she recalls. Just as the shot was ready to go, one of the young man’s companions kicked the mortar and the firework went up in the air. “I can’t understand all the hate I felt yesterday”, said the woman. The Villeurbanne resident, accompanied by other people, was finally able to save the school.