The students of a high school in Caen had the very unpleasant surprise of finding maggots in their dish in the canteen. What anger parents.
It is a moment that students often look forward to. At lunchtime, in schools, a horde of teenagers rush to the canteen for a lunch break well deserved. But no student wishes to experience what the students of Camille Claudel high school in Caen, Thursday, October 6. As reported France 3 Normandythe high school students were about to devour their pasta dish when they discovered worms on their plate.
“We were eating our meatball dish with pasta when we noticed small maggots on the plates“, testified Marie, a senior high school student from Caen. The latter initially thought, like her comrades, that it was simply a matter of “little pieces of onions”. “But very quickly everyone was shouting ‘it’s maggots'”, added the teenager. Unfortunately, this more than unpleasant find had regrettable consequences. “Since Thursday evening, I’m sick, I have a stomach ache and I’m vomiting“, said Mary. According to France 3, other students have also claimed to suffer from similar ailments.
Students contradict management’s defense
The fact that the canteen served such contaminated food to the children naturally aroused parental anger. For its part, the school management published a message on the school’s website to explain. “At the beginning of the canteen service, we had doubt about the quality pasta served. Immediately he was asked not to eat them“can we read on this publication signed by the principal, Jacky Borowczak, who even underlined that“none problem of health has been observed”. However, a high school student told France 3 that several of his classmates had already started consuming their meal before realizing the presence of maggots. It was then that the administration would have asked the students not to eat the pasta, and not at the start of the service, as the management claims.
“We asked a laboratory to carry out the analysis of these pastes“wrote Jacky Borowczak on the school’s website. “Our dishes are made on site, in our kitchen. This Friday morning, we completely emptied our reserve, where our pasta, rice and the rest of the food is. We proceed to the disinsectization of the premises and we have thrown away more than half the stock“, explained the principal to France 3. Understanding “the excitement aroused by this affair”Jacky Borowczak apologized and wished to emphasize the exceptional nature of this incident: “In 23 years of business, I had never faced this type of problem.”