It is a somewhat special back to school in Marcel Pagnol de Meyzieu school this Monday, May 5. Students have returned to hard classes, after spending most of the school year in prefabricated. In June 2024, the establishment had been the victim of a voluntary fire. If the work will continue until September, it is almost a return to normal.
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This Monday, May 5, in Meyzieu, dix months after the fire in the Marcel Pagnol school group,Small students and their teachers were able to find hard classes. The end of the Easter holidays thus marks their reinstatement in a partially renovated building. The work will last for a few more months. The city wanted to make the claim that occurred in June, an opportunity.
The municipality of Meyzieu talks about uit is “first concrete step” which has just been crossed this Monday morning, back to school day, with the reintegration of seven classes in a partially renovated building.
At the Marcel Pagnol school, the 158 students of the seven elementary classes were Installed since the start of the school year in September 2024 in modular buildings. This chapter is now closed.
“Ten months after the criminal fire, the students of the Marcel Pagnol school return to part of their building, renovated within constrained deadlines thanks to exemplary coordination of municipal services and mobilized companies. This reopening marks an important stage. It testifies to our determination to guarantee the continuity of the public service and to offer children a secure, modernized and functional working environment”, Indicates the mayor of Meyzieu, Thierry Quiniou.
Ceilings, lighting, frames … The work was carried out beating drums and “In an emergency”. The challenge was to allow students of the elementary classes to reintegrate their building as soon as possible. After the asbestos removal carried out at the start of the year, the rehabilitation of the first floor was completed for this start of the May.
But the renovation of the Marcel Pagnol school group is not fully completed. The work will continue, “On the ground floor, in occupied site”, Until the start of the school year in September 2025, “With site arrangements to limit nuisance during class hours “. As for noisy interventions, they will be scheduled outside the hours of lessons, the town hall said in a press release. “Two classes will remain in the building on the maternal side until the end of the work”, Is it specified.
“Beyond the simple reconstruction, the city has chosen to transform this test into an opportunity for improvement “is it mentioned. Thus, a Self new will be made for the entire school group, the enlarged recreational space and the released restoration space will be transformed into a common extracurricular reception, added the press release.
On June 19, 2024, the Marcel Pagnol de Meyzieu school group which hosted 250 children of kindergarten and elementary classes was the victim of a fire. The establishment was the target of two young vandals. A voluntary act caused a few days before the summer holidays. Two classes were completely destroyed and eleven other rooms made completely unusable. The cost of the invoice to repair everything was first estimated at 500,000 euros.
The amount of the renovation of the classes, corridors, stairs and sanitation exceeds one million euros. This is without counting, the costs incurred by the new school improvement projects which are around 800,000 euros. The city should however be paid 950,000 euros by insurance after this disaster.
The Pagnol school, in Meyzieu, had been the victim of a voluntary fire in June 2024. Several classes had been made unusable – Archives (Capture Social Netlands – City of Meyzieu) • © DR
On September 13, about three months after the fact, the two minors were presented to a children’s judge and found guilty of “Voluntary degradation by dangerous means“. They were sentenced to a four -month suspended prison sentence.
… and costly provisional solution
The town hall had to react quickly to allow schoolchildren to stay on this site for the start of the September school year. 40 prefabricated modules had been installed on adjoining land, instead of the old demolie school. This solution, expensive for the municipality, avoided children to be distributed in the different schools of the city for repair work. Modular rental cost 300,000 euros.
Prefabricated, lined up on a land neighboring the Pagnol school group in Meyzieu, made it possible to welcome the students of the disaster school during the works. Archives September 2024 • © France tv
When the municipal team has chosen to welcome classes in Prefabricated, the bet was however far from won. “”We were afraid of not finding all the bungalows we needed,had entrusted assistant Robert Pellarinibecause there were the Olympic Games and that a good part was there (in Paris), so they arrived from all over France. “
The last of the 40 Algeco type modules had arrived just a few days before the start of the school year in September. These modular structures will be removed at the end of May. “But to date no more students study in these places”underlines the town hall. The smallest having finally been directed to other schools.
