A fire took place in a school in Meyzieu, near Lyon.
Classes were ravaged by a fire of criminal origin.
Two thirteen-year-old teenagers, who filmed themselves at the time of the incident, were arrested.
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Soot has replaced the children’s drawings on the walls. We follow the mayor (DVD) Christophe Quiniou in front of two charred classrooms. “What remains are the metal structures of the tables and chairs and the concrete walls.“, he laments. The two thirteen-year-old teenagers involved filmed everything: their break-in with a pitchfork, the moment they lit the fire, then the desks and cupboards overturned, the computers destroyed, as they progressed through the school, the videos were posted on social networks.
For the moment, it is impossible to assess the amount of damage and it is not yet certain that the school will be able to reopen at the start of the school year in September. The mayor plans “perhaps a degraded mode at the start of the school year, have them eat in another place, have temporary classes in the garden“. For now “everything is under study but the objective is anyway to renovate the school“, he assures.
The 240 students lost their work for the year
We find the pain of children on the grids. The 240 students lost their entire year’s work, their benchmarks. Until the holidays, they are hosted in the neighboring high school.
Everywhere, it’s the same incomprehension. Even more so, according to the mayor, as the two teenagers had been educated there. The two teenagers were placed under judicial supervision pending their trial. They risk up to five years of imprisonment, a sentence often imposed in a closed educational center to support the child’s reintegration.
