High school student anger: 37 National Education staff injured in 48 hours, announces Édouard Geffray

Thirty-seven National Education staff were injured in two days as part of the blockades and the high school movement, said Minister Édouard Geffray, who wants criminal responses to these acts of violence. “For 48 hours, even though the high school blockages are residual, we have 37 staff who have been injured and we have filed no less than 1,000 complaints since this movement,” the minister declared to senators on Wednesday.

He was notably questioned about the attack on Monday, in a school in Nice, of the director and a teacher by a student's mother who threatened them with a weapon and hit them. “We cannot ignore that this extremely serious act is part of a series of acts against the educational institution and against in particular school directors and against school heads,” pointed out Édouard Geffray, who plans to go there at the end of the week.

Since the start of the high school movement in mid-September, more than 200 National Education staff have been injured, according to the ministry. Tuesday morning, fireworks mortars were fired in several Ile-de-France high schools, said the Versailles rectorate, which “strongly condemns” these acts. A supervisor was injured in the ear at the Parc des Loges high school in Évry.

At the Doisneau high school in Corbeil-Essonnes, the head of the establishment, his assistant and the prevention and security assistant were targeted by these shots. At the Les Frères Moreau high school in Quincy-sous-Sénart, the police intervened after shots were fired targeting the head of the establishment. “Disciplinary proceedings may be initiated against the authors when they have been identified,” specifies the rectorate.