Par David Goudey Published on May 3, 2025 at 3:26 p.m.
What exactly happened this Friday, May 2, 2025 in the evening on the enclosure of the René-Descartes college, in Fontenay-le-Fleury (Yvelines), where a fire broke out around 9 p.m.? What was doing in the courtyard the fifteen wooden pallets which left for smoke? And above all, the man’s hand Is it behind this disaster, who fortunately did not spread and made no collateral damage thanks to the rapid intervention of the departmental fire and rescue service of the Yvelines (SDIS 78).
Accidental or criminal? While an investigation was opened to shed light on the facts, the answer to this question is already almost no doubt for Richard Rivaud, the mayor of Fontenay-le-Fleury. Joined by 78 actors, the councilor asserts his certainty.
“I don’t designate anyone, but I don’t see how it would not be intentional. »»
For the mayor, everything converges towards the track of the malicious act
Several elements converge on him towards the track of a malicious act. It is first temporality. “Between mid-April and mid-July, we regularly face each year of disturbing behaviors in public spacemainly from young people, underlines Richard Rivaud, who has run the town since 2014. This is particularly the case with Bailly with the motorized rodeos. »»
“Incivility occurs mainly between 9:30 p.m. and midnight,” continues the mayor Fontenaysien. At best it lies heckling, at worst it sometimes commits very big nonsense. On this time slotwe have increased vigilance and surveillance is reinforced. »»
A family passes in front of the college and gives the alert
According to the information collected by the elected official to the principal of the establishment later in the evening, it is a family, who passed by and “brought his children back from a sporting activity”, who gave the alert and warned the rescue After seeing flames and thick smoke escape from the college. Have his attention and presence of mind avoided the worst?
The principal And two other people working in college, all housed in internal officials at the establishment, only had a few meters to do to reach the fire.
“No intrusion” filmed by video surveillance
Contacted by 78 news, the establishment head refuses to “fuel the psychosis ». On the contrary, Sophie Fieux plays the transparency card. And above all book an element of investigation which unravels the thesis defended by the mayor Richard Rivaud, for whom the pallets “could not take fire like that”.
“The video surveillance images have not revealed any intrusion. And there is above all a camera that films the place where there was fire. »»
The Bois des Palettes was intended for a workshop for students in Segpa
The palettes reduced to ashes and “Empty of any load”were stored “vertically along a wall close to a small storage room distant from the main speaker”, specifies the establishment chef.
Wood was intended for the pursuit of a manual activity around the hydroponic culture carried out by the students of Segpa of the College as part of theoption « habitat » .
Compost was next to the palettes
The pallets destroyed by the flames that were around “with compost”, does not also hide the main one. A start to the track for investigators? “This compost is the grass that we mow», Underlines Sophie Fieux.
THE High temperatures for the past few days, the blazing sun of this Friday, May 2, 2025, all associated with the Bois des Palettes, lit the spark? ” I am sereneAs for the conclusions of the investigation, ensures the establishment’s head. It is a college that is fine. If someone had really wanted to set fire, it was not there that he would have turned on the fire. »»
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