In Beauvais, an elementary school was vandalized during the night of Monday December 23 to Tuesday December 24.
The criminals took nothing, but the damage was significant.
The mayor assures that everything is being done to allow a normal start to the school year on January 6.
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The events took place only a few hours before Christmas. On the night of December 23 to 24, individuals entered the Alphonse-Daudet school in Beauvais (Oise), as well as the annex of the neighboring nursery school. Inside, they overturned cabinets, threw notebooks to the ground, broke computers and even smashed the windows of an aquarium before leaving… empty-handed. The material damage is impressive, as shown in the TF1 news video at the top of this article.
The school is expected to reopen on January 6 as planned
In total, ten classrooms out of 12 were ransacked. Among the parents of students, incomprehension and anger predominate. “It's nonsense. They killed some poor fish. The children's fish! What are they going to do when they enter their class?”storms one of them. “It’s not normal, it’s not right what they did”deplores a woman. “We can’t imagine something like that, when there’s nothing to steal in it”concludes a man at the microphone of TF1.
The perpetrators left behind only a hammer and a bottle of alcohol. A complaint has been filed and an investigation is open. To find them, the video surveillance camera will be analyzed. In the meantime, the municipal team is preparing the return of 120 students, from CP to CM2.
“There is still equipment to buy but the services have been mobilized to ensure that everything goes back to normal and that the children who will be welcomed back to school on January 6 return to the school they left on Christmas Eve “hopes Franck Pia, the mayor (UDI) of Beauvais.
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This is not the first time that this establishment has been targeted. The windows had already been broken several times. To prevent this from happening again, the elected official, who denounces an attack against the Republic, requested a strengthening of police patrols in this neighborhood.
