“Strictly forbidden”: Borne calls the rectors to order after the arrest of an undocumented student in his middle school

The educational community says it is shocked by the foray of law enforcement into an establishment. A practice proscribed by several ministerial circulars.

The Minister of National Education wrote to the rectors of academies and school heads to hammer out to them that the arrest of a student is strictly forbidden inside schools.

A 14-year-old student from Burkina Faso was arrested during her classes at Paul Verlaine middle school in Maizières-lès-Metz, before being driven back to the Belgian border with her family. This intervention aroused a wave of outrage and revived the debate on migration practices in schools. Several organizations are calling for a new rally on Thursday in front of the prefecture.

In Moselle, a middle school girl was arrested by the police in her school last week, in order to be expelled from the territory. The student, originally from Burkina Faso, was taken back to the Belgian border with his mother and younger brother. This intervention shocked the teaching staff, as the law prohibited to law enforcement agencies [...]

A week after an undocumented middle school student was arrested in her school, the Minister of National Education sent a letter to remind her of the rules.

The Minister of National Education sent a “reminder” to the rectors concerning the interventions of the police in establishments, Franceinfo learned on Wednesday, after the expulsion, last week, of an undocumented Burkinabe middle school student attending school in Moselle.