The Lot-et-Garonne firefighters intervened this Sunday evening around 11:30 p.m. on Sunday evening to fight the fire of seven cars in the ENAP car park, the National School of Prison Administration in Agen. Several hundred students had to be evacuated. No one injured is to be deplored. The unions denounce a criminal fire.
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During the night of Sunday to Monday, seven vehicles were burnt down in Agen, ahead of the National School of Prison Administration. The rapid intervention of firefighters avoided that the fire spreads to the ten other cars parked not far from the vehicles concerned by the fire, in the external parking lot of the ENAP.
The seven cars were completely hed up when they arrived. Eighteen firefighters, with the help of two spears, proceeded to extinction of the loss. At the same time, the students were evacuated and gathered. There are a thousand to reside in this center which forms in the trades of the prison administration. Among them, two young women were taken from light discomfort.
According to the SDIS 47 firefighters, “The students were able to regain their establishment safely and in peace, once the use recognitions have been carried out“By the firefighters at the level of buildings close to the loss.
For the time being, we do not know the exact circumstances of the start of fire. Short-circuit? Accidental or criminal fire? The car lights are currently increasing in the sector and other similar fires have recently affected penal establishments.
“The prison family has been affected”
“Tonight, an extreme gravity act tonight occurred in the ENAP parking lot. One or more individuals arrived by car, shouted before setting fire to seven vehicles, causing a fire“On the Facebook page of the FO Justice union, the images testify to the damage of the fire.
The pupils representative, Fo-Justice, Fouad Tabaza, reacts the day after the loss. “”The judicial police are on the file. We do not know the authors, either the circumstances. This is a first in the history of the national school of prison administration“.
On the other hand, he issues doubts if it was a criminal fire. For him, “The climbing of violence against penitentiary personnel has crossed a new unacceptable CAP.
This type of aggression cannot remain unanswered. FO Justice awaits a strong and immediate sign from the administration.
Mr. Tabaza welcomes “The composure and the exemplary reflex of the students who immediately evacuated the nearby buildings to regroup safely. “
Such an event inevitably marks spirits in the community of security personnel. “FO Justice requires support measures that meet this event”, he explains, while a meeting must be held during the day with the management of the establishment.
In its press release, the union concludes that “theSafety of agents, students and staff must be an absolute priority “. Fouad Tabaza adds, awaiting the results of the survey, “It is an attack on the prison family. We must act accordingly “.
