At the start of autumn, the sounds of construction replace the cries of lookouts in front of the Bruguier school, in Chemin-Bas-d’Avignon. Construction equipment finishes the construction of a new forecourt. Eight months ago, a bus returning from a school trip found itself in the middle of a shooting. Are students safe in schools? In a few days, on November 4, eight adults, including a Gardoise, will be tried in Paris for their involvement in the death of teacher Samuel Paty. A year ago, on October 13, 2023, another teacher, Dominique Bernard, was murdered in his high school in Arras. In this context, City, Department, Region and academy make security a priority. The Jean-Baptiste-Dumas high school in Alès, for example, has just received alert buttons linked to the police. Nine high schools in the academy are testing this system. The Department is launching a plan to equip it with cameras to secure college entrances. Some didn’t wait and already have around forty.
“If we leave, we leave the territory to them. It’s up to them to move away.”
Should we relocate the Bruguier school from Chemin-Bas-d’Avignon? After the shooting on February 8, another option was chosen: increase the police presence and carry out security work.
The noise is dull, regular. From time to time, high-pitched beeps interrupt him. Friday, September 20, a steamroller passes back and forth in front of the Bruguier school. Helmeted in white, dressed in fluorescent red, four men take measurements. A first part of the square was able to be delivered for the start of the school year. From time to time, children’s cries pierce the construction noise. We hear them playing in the yard, but we can’t see them. The fence of this school in Chemin-Bas-d’Avignon was not made with a classic fence but with perforated sheet metal plates. Standing 3 meters high, they were installed in early 2021, after a drug dealer crossed the schoolyard to escape a police check.
On this Friday morning, the neighborhood is quiet. No lookouts on chairs near the Bruguier school. No “arah” barked to announce the arrival of the police. But, a hundred meters from the school, a bullet hole on the front door of a building reminds us …
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