Education Minister Nicole Belloubet, traveling to Bordeaux this Friday, announced her plan to deploy “a mobile school security force that will be national” and “that can be deployed to institutions in difficulty.”
As such, these security forces will be “designed to reassure teachers” and “provide physical security” at middle and high schools.
In response to a question from AFP, the minister’s entourage clarified that this team, “consisting of approximately twenty national education agents,” will be “created at the beginning of the 2024 school year.” “In the event of an acute crisis, it can be projected across the entire area within 48 hours when local resources require additional support,” we added. His “mission will be to provide security within the establishment, reassure and educate.”
Tensions after the Ravel High School case
Stressing that she also wants to guarantee “legal certainty,” the minister noted that “from now on, the state will systematically take civil action when a complaint is filed” when there are “acts of cyber-maliciousness or acts of physical attack” against an educational institution.
The minister’s statement came after the early departure of the director of the Maurice-Ravel secondary school, located in the 20th arrondissement of Paris. Indeed, he became the target of insults and threats after he asked a student at the institution to remove her veil. She filed a complaint, which was then rejected, with the director choosing to leave for her own safety.
He was received by Prime Minister Gabriel Attal, who announced that the state was filing a complaint against the girl. This Friday, a rally was organized in front of Ravel High School in support of education workers.
ENT messages suspended
The minister also announced the suspension of posting messages in the ENT spaces of educational institutions. The goal: to prevent further malicious activity after hundreds of middle and high schools were targeted by digital hacks.
The ministry indicated that since the middle of last week there have been 340 threats in France across 44 departments and 20 academies. Some establishments even had to be evacuated due to threats of attack for “security checks.” A teenager was also arrested in Hauts-de-Seine as part of the investigation into the break-ins.
Source: Le Parisien
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