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A week after the end of the student occupation of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Aubervilliers, tags and traces of the blockage still streak the interior of the building. A complaint was filed by the governance of the institution.
On the ground floor of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), a suggestion box contains two post-its. The first invites “destroy the state and the cops”. The second, to form a constituent assembly reserved for individuals younger than Jesus – only people “under the age of 33”. Next to it, shells cover the ground, mold colonizes coffee to grind. Garbage cans obstruct the corridors and the decor is slashed with tags. A wall specifies the aroma floating in the air: it is the smell of “the revolution”.
The occupation of the place by students ended almost a week ago, but the building, a brand new branch located on the Condorcet campus, in Aubervilliers (Seine-Saint-Denis), still bears all the scars. Students, agents and teachers, many of them stunned, are kept away for an indefinite time. A story of insurance according to the management, which filed a complaint on Tuesday and assesses the damage at several hundred thousand euros. From now on, the EHESS can be visited as one leaves in urbex. The floors unfold a jumble of claims, sometimes contradictory. We read : “All prophets are liars” (in red), “bourgeois people stink” (in black), “Let’s free ourselves from the male” (in purple), “cuckoo foufoune” (in pink), “curiosity is a bad thing” (in white) – corpses of what look like cameras hang above this final mess…