Several young people armed with “knives and a hammer” broke into the school on Wednesday at around 10 a.m., said Agnès Renaud, a teacher. A brawl broke out and a 16-year-old student was injured, added a source close to the investigation. He suffers from “superficial wounds” to his face, she said. Denouncing this “violent aggression”, some forty staff exercised their right to withdraw on Thursday and stopped working, demanding in particular “equal treatment of institutions”. Source BFMTV
Humanitarian group SOS Méditerranée said Sunday (21 July) it has relaunched rescue efforts off Libya seven months after it abandoned operations using its ship Aquarius and despite a refusal by European ports to accept the migrants. Source Euractiv
Speaking ahead of a vote of confidence in Parliament on Monday, Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias sought to send a message to Turkey over its increasingly aggressive tactics in the region. Sourece Ekathimerini
Two police officers have been found dead in recent hours. One, assigned to CRS 15, killed himself with his service weapon last night. The second, assigned to the police school of Nimes (Gard), was found hanging from his home on Monday morning. Source Actu17
