“I have decided to double the number of regional security brigades, to go from fifty agents to a hundred,” announced the president of the Île-de-France region, Valérie Pécresse, this Monday, in The Parisian. Before her trip to the Louis-Armand high school in Yerres where five agents from a regional security brigade have been on duty since brawls between gangs, she sets out the measures she intends to put in place to protect the Ile-de-France high schools, after the attack. fatal stabbing against a literature professor in Arras on Friday, Dominique Bernard.
“The security of high schools is my priority, according to one principle: the high school asks, the region finances. There is no financial limit on the subject,” she states determinedly in the columns of Parisian. If she defends the installation of security gates and cameras, the president of Île-de-France, however, rejects the purchase of metal detectors, “not really effective”.
Private security as reinforcement
While awaiting the recruitment of these regional security brigade agents, Valérie Pécresse claims to use the private security sector to protect establishments, in particular with dog handlers. High schools can request this as soon as they encounter security problems.
Finally, she calls on the government to take the phenomenon of bomb threats seriously, particularly in the tense climate generated by the conflict between Israel and Hamas. “They force the establishment to be evacuated to remove doubts. Class hours are lost. I contacted the Ministry of the Interior to tell it not to take this phenomenon lightly, and to strengthen the investigation teams. The perpetrators must be severely punished,” she concludes.