Strasbourg: a college stopped after an intrusion and death threats

An operation "vsollege death"Was conducted by teachers and parents of students after the intrusion of minors in the college Jacques-Twinger of Strasbourg.

An operation "Dead college" paralyzed on Tuesday, October 15, a Strasbourg institution after the intrusion in early October of teenagers who threatened a teacher with a dummy weapon, teachers and parents of students denouncing an explosive situation, learned AFP from concordant sources. October 4, three "Minors under 15 years" entered the college Jacques-Twinger and threatened a teacher who asked them to leave the place, told AFP a source close to the file.

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The investigation against them was opened including death threats, said this source. One of the teenagers launched "We'll kill you all" to the teacher, told AFP Sylvain Thouvenot, professor of SVT and representative of the staff. "Our colleague is still on sick leave and the whole educational community is in shock", he lamented. "We're frustrated to hear it's a fake weapon. So far, we are not able to say, the youngster did not introduce the weapon the police "Brahim Maameri from the Parent and Student Association of Strasbourg and the Eurometropolis said.

Parents request the construction of another college

In this college, ranked REP in the popular district of Koenigshoffen west of Strasbourg, only a handful of young people were welcomed on Tuesday, after parents of students had called on Monday not to come to class. "It's not an event that has come out of nowhere, it's the consequences of not taking care of the grievances", believes Brahim Maameri.

The parents of the college students ask for a Senior Advisor of additional education. They denounce the saturation of this college and would like, in the longer term, that another institution be built in the neighborhood. "The college is the funnel that recovers a lot of problems in the neighborhood", a neighborhood that is experiencing strong population growth, points out Sylvain Thouvenot, regretting that the rectorate "Told us not to make waves, not to rouse the press".

A listening cell set up

Representatives of parents and teachers were scheduled to meet on Tuesday late afternoon the school inspector. On Monday, the Rectorate assured in a statement that it has supported the establishment by sending a "Mobile security team" to monitor access and set up a "Listening cell".

The Lower Rhine County Council has meanwhile installed a videophone on October 10, "To limit the possibility of incidents of this type in the future", according to the rectorate.