In Nanterre, high school students “hyper shocked” to have been arrested for having demonstrated – Liberation

PoliceArticle reserved for subscribers Fourteen people, most of them students from the Joliot-Curie high school, were arrested on Tuesday during a rally in front of the Hauts-de-Seine school. The massive deployment of police facing teenagers leaves families with a bitter taste. While the Joliot-Curie high school in Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine) has been talked about since the start of the school year for the outpouring of support for one of its teachers, Kai Terada, automatically transferred to another department, the students from the same establishment are also mobilizing. A movement that ended with fourteen arrests on Tuesday for acts of “armed crowd by masked people, outrages and violence against the police with weapons and in a meeting”, according to the Nanterre prosecutor’s office. Nine students were released after 24 hours, the other five saw their custody extended. All police custody was in the process of being lifted on Wednesday at the end of the day. According to the prosecution, twelve are minors, two adults, and not all were students of this high school which welcomes many teenagers from working class backgrounds. Three of them are summoned to the juvenile court in December for acts of “aggravated violence against a person holding public authority and with a weapon”, specifies the prosecution. “There was a dragnet, like c ‘has been the practice since the young people of Mantes-la-Jolie,’ denounces Arié Alimi, the lawyer for twelve of the fourteen young people arrested, in reference to these teenagers from Yvelines arrested and brought to their knees, hands on their heads, in 2 …