The authorities in Paris hope the camera network will protect life and property in the sixth-forms CHARLES PLATIAU/REUTERSClosed-circuit television cameras are to be installed inside sixth-form colleges in the Paris region after pupils ransacked three in a crime-ridden suburb. Valérie Pécresse, centre-right chairwoman of the Paris Regional Council, made the announcement as she promised to step up security to curb a wave of violence among pupils. Cameras have already been installed at the entrance to more than half of the region’s 470 lycées under an annual Eu10 million plan launched by Mrs Pécresse in 2016. Following the rioting in Saint-Denis north of Paris this week, she said cameras would be placed inside lycées to monitor pupils and equipment. The move sparked a furious row, with the left-wing Ecologist Party issuing a statement to say: “We’ve never seen a camera intervene to protect…

Source: The Times March 09, 2017 16:52 UTC