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Illustrative photo of a minesweeper carrying a shell dating from the First World War.
MISCELLANEOUS FACTS – A lesson taken a little too seriously. In the Oise department, in Maignelay-Montigny, a simple primary school lesson on the First World War led to the evacuation of the school this Thursday, April 18.
The fault lies with a CM2 student who “ thought he was doing well “, as the mayor of the town slips, bringing in his satchel a real shell dating from the ” Great War “. And as reported byOise Hebdo, this history lesson in the Albert-Camus elementary school provoked the intervention of the deminers. The adjoining Charlotte-Dussarps nursery school was also emptied to avoid any risk of accidents.
“ When her teacher saw the object, she reacted very well and warned everyone “, says the councilor of Maignelay-Montigny, Denis Flour. However, everything seemed to start from a good intention for this student of around ten years old who thought he could help “illustrate the history lesson of the day”.
120 students evacuated
Arriving on site after 10 a.m., the deminers “ acted very quickly », thus allowing the 120 students evacuated to a nearby community hall to return to the school benches less than an hour after the intervention.
Shaken but reassured, several parents of students confided in the Parisianwhen meeting their children for the lunch break. “I hope at least that the student will get a good grade, after all the mobilization he has created, even if his parents must not be happy…”, slips a parent of a student. Another mother salutes the coolness of teachers who did not immediately anticipate the parents : “They did well to evacuate before warning the parents, otherwise we would have all rushed out and hampered the intervention “.
In the newspaper, the mayor of the town also reminds us that these finds from the past – less rare than we think – are not amusing and must be reported to the police and firefighters, preferably without handling them beforehand. intervention of the authorities.
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