Rennes: an individual wanted by the police, students barricaded in their classes

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[Mise à jour à 14h59, lundi 18 décembre 2023 : La décision de lever l’alerte dans les établissements scolaires a été prise par le préfet et le recteur d’académie, l’individu n’ayant pas été vu au sein du collège et lycée.

L’individu est toutefois toujours recherché par la police, qui reste en sécurisation aux abords des établissements scolaires, nous ont indiqué les forces de l’ordre.]

[Mise à jour à 14h30, lundi 18 décembre 2023 : l’alerte a été levée au lycée René Descartes et au collège des Hautes-Ourmes de Rennes. Les cours vont pouvoir reprendre. Des collations vont être proposées aux élèves qui n’ont pas pu déjeuner.]

At 12:40 p.m., Monday December 18, 2023, a suspicious individual was reported to the police in Rennes. “This one was located between the Descartes high school and the Hautes-Ourmes college,” indicates the police, contacted by news Rennes.

Schools, located in the district of Blosnehave “put in place their PPMS”, or their specific security plan.

Charlotte, a high school student at Descartes, described the scene to us: “we barricaded the door of the room with stools”.

We are all under the tables in complete darkness. We can not talk.

CharlotteA high school student from Descartes

Alicia and Romy, in second grade, talk about the fear and the tears that occurred with the first alert messages sent around 1 p.m. “We heard the bell, then the principal who asked us to confine ourselves to classrooms, close the shutters, barricade the doors and make no noise. Some had panic attacks. It is traumatic. »

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Several students alerted their parents of the situation by message. About ten of parents of students are present in front of the Descartes high school.

“My daughter warned me directly. I canceled all my appointments and made one hour drive to come on site. It seems difficult to me to resume a day of classes after that,” one of them confided to our journalist on site.

An armed man ?

On site, police crews surround the area and are looking for the man who is believed to be armed according to his description. “We are told about a man armed with a Kalashnikov or a knife,” says the high school student.

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