16 schools will remain closed due to flooding and will not be able to receive children after the end of the New Year holidays, representatives of the prefecture of the Pas-de-Calais department in northern France said, TF1 reported on January 7.
For hundreds of Pas de Calais students there will be no return to school this Monday, January 8. In a press release published on Sunday, the prefecture of Calais indicates that “Currently 16 schools are affected by flooding and will therefore not be able to welcome students on Monday, January 8, 2024 in satisfactory conditions.”.
The latest updated report from the prefecture, published on Sunday, indicates that three new schools have joined the 13 educational institutions previously mentioned by the competent authorities. “For each of these institutions, the National Education Service implements means to guarantee the continuity of education”“, clarified the prefecture.
Thus, one of the three Lycée Lipso locations in Saint-Omer will remain closed to distance learning. Some schools will also offer distance education courses, while others will be able to take their students to other institutions.
“We will do everything possible so that the start of the school year takes place, we are not going to add problems to families”– assured the president of the Hauts-de-France region, Xavier Bertrand (Republicans party).
Let us remember that prolonged rains once again caused river levels to rise and floods in the north of France, in the departments of Pas-de-Calais, Nord, Aisne, Ardennes, Meuse and Moselle. and Meurthe and Moselle. At the beginning of January, the water level of the Aa River, which flows into the North Sea, reached its highest level ever.
According to the prefecture of the Pas-de-Calais department, 191 municipalities and 2,768 houses were affected by the floods in early January, the second in two months.
More than 10,000 homes were left without electricity in the north of the country, in the Hauts-de-France region.
Source: Rossa Primavera
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