Three 4-year-old children left their nursery school alone on Tuesday afternoon in Paris, escaping the vigilance of the extracurricular facilitators, before being found safe and sound in the street, more than a kilometer from the school. , we learned from concordant sources. These three children in the middle section of kindergarten who were in the yard at lunch break left the premises of their school, located rue Balard in the 15th arrondissement of the capital, on their own, explained to AFP Patrick Bloche, education assistant to Mayor Anne Hidalgo, confirming information from Parisian.
The three children seen near the AquaBoulevard
At that time, the school children are under the responsibility of the extracurricular time coordinators, who depend on the communities. According to Patrick Bloche, “a series of malfunctions” allowed this escape: “a little earlier, an adult left the establishment by activating a button which left the door in opening mode, before the children left school alone, without anyone seeing them”.
“The three children were stopped by a passerby near the “AquaBoulevard” nautical center, located more than a kilometer from the nursery school, after crossing very busy traffic lanes, a tram line and going under the device”, said the elected official, considering that “these facts are extremely serious”.
“There was a manifest lack of supervision, an administrative investigation has been opened by the City of Paris and there will be sanctions if there is fault”, added Patrick Bloche, who specifies that “at this stage, no sanction was pronounced”. Contacted by AFP, the parents’ association FCPE Paris assured that “a meeting between the parents of the three children and the school is scheduled for Friday”.