On Friday, November 13, the gathering is therefore to be held outside every high school, at the call of the main principals’ union, the day after a series of acts that injured a school head and damaged premises. On the morning of Monday, November 9, in Bègles (Gironde), a school head was struck in the head by a paving stone. The union specifically condemns the assault on this colleague, who was hit by a projectile.
In Lyon (Rhône), the door of the Édouard-Herriot high school was set on fire on Friday by the spread of a blaze in trash bins. On Monday, November 9, at least 80 senior staff members gathered outside the charred door.
Other people had already gathered outside this high school, whose door burned. Four arrests were made, one of them involving a person from the high school.
This mobilization comes as officials are being targeted and school premises are also being attacked. The union thus intends to make visible a tension it considers unprecedented in the schools.
These remarks echo the assessment drawn up after the assaults: the schools themselves are also being targeted, beyond the individuals specifically singled out.
The call to gather on Friday concerns all schools. It comes from the main principals’ union, which is placing the day under the banner of solidarity with the staff members who were assaulted.
After several assaults targeting school heads and educational staff, anger is rising in the high schools. The main principals’ union is calling for a gathering outside every school on Friday, November 13.