Three students from a high school in Reims are scheduled to go on trial in March. They are suspected of attacking a teacher and a teaching assistant inside the premises of their school on Friday, the Reims public prosecutor's office said on Sunday evening.
This teacher and teaching assistant at the Joliot-Curie high school in Reims, northern France, were “confronted” when they tried to separate students who were arguing in the high school, the rectorate said.
According to the public prosecutor's office, a total of four students have been taken into custody and three of them, who are not known to the judicial authorities, will be heard in the children's court on March 20.
They are charged with “violence that resulted in total incapacity for work for more than eight days” with three aggravating circumstances, including violence in meetings, against persons entrusted with a public mission and in a school facility.
According to the Rectorate, “all affected students will be excluded as a precautionary measure until the disciplinary council is convened” and “a hearing cell will be set up for students and staff who express the need.”
“No threat or aggression, physical or verbal, can be tolerated towards employees,” said Vincent Stanek, rector of the Reims Academy, in a press release.
“My full support for this attacked teacher. I condemn this attack in the strongest possible terms. The perpetrators must be harshly condemned. The return of respect and authority becomes essential and urgent!”, responded Arnaud Robinet, the mayor of Reims, to X.