He provided further proof of sorts that his child required foster care. A parent of a student whose child had just been urgently placed in a socio-educational home punched the social worker who had carried out this placement. The incident occurred in a college in Sarcelles (Val-d’Oise), according to police sources and the rectorate.
Wednesday around 11:30 a.m., this father of a student at Jean-Lurçat college went to the establishment and “reproached a social worker for not having been informed of a report made to the prosecutor,” explained to the AFP the rectorate. This report resulted last week in an order for the temporary placement of his child in a socio-educational home according to a police source.
Questioning in front of students
During the discussion, the 56-year-old parent hit the social worker particularly in the face and arm. A nurse then intervened and had to dodge chair shots. Called to the scene, the police forces subdued the man and arrested him in front of students. He was placed in police custody at the Sarcelles police station.
After being taken to the Gonesse emergency room by the firefighters for minor injuries, the social worker filed a complaint, as did National Education. The school nurse was not injured. “The ministry expresses its full support for the attacked social worker and the entire educational community of the Jean-Lurçat college,” the rectorate of the Versailles academy told AFP. A listening cell was offered to all staff.
Physical and verbal attacks against school staff have received increased attention since the October 13 jihadist attack in Arras, during which a radicalized former student stabbed French teacher Dominique Bernard to death in front of his college. high school.