French High Schools Hit by Firework Mortar Attacks: Around 40 Recorded in Île-de-France in One Day, Some 15 Inside Schools
Amid France's wave of high-school protests, schools have come under repeated firework mortar attack. On Monday, November 9, about 50 high schools in the Île-de-France region were disrupted and around 40 firework mortar attacks were recorded across the region, some 15 of them inside schools, including in Chelles.
The attacks had begun the week before. On November 3, the principals of two high schools in Essonne, at Corbeil-Essonnes and Quincy-sous-Sénart, were targeted with mortars, and a mortar fired inside one school triggered a lockdown. On November 5, about 30 masked people used mortars to set a fire at the Françoise high school in Tournefeuille, near Toulouse. On November 6, the gate of the Édouard-Herriot high school in Lyon was set on fire and its facade damaged, in footage verified by Reuters.
French high-school students have been protesting for weeks over education funding and reforms. GSM reported on November 2 that when protests resumed on a small scale that Monday, the education minister said blockades affected only a small number of schools; the recent attacks on school buildings and principals mark a clear escalation.
(Source: BFM TV)
Source: BFM TV
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