A 16-year-old boy Thursday has been kicked out of high school, Mulernes Legatskole in Odense, after he has been charged with illegal arson on school premises.
It tells the rector Torben Jakobsen to Ekstra Bladet.
the Boy was, according to the school management and The Police on Wednesday, the cause of all of the school’s 800 students and many staff had to be evacuated. It came to pass, when the boy, according to the accusation, which the police now against him, set fire to a roll of toilet paper during a visit to one of the school’s toilets in the middle of an hour.
– We feared for a time it was the wiring harness that burned, and it was this that did, we evacuated the school. Fortunately it turned out that it only was a roll of toilet paper that burned. It had gotten hold of some plastic that melted, says the school’s rector Torben Jakobsen to Ekstra Bladet.
– It is quite incredible that such a tiny thing can develop such a smell, says Torben Jakobsen on.
the School took reasonable out quickly who the suspects ildspåsætter was. It turned out that the security cameras at the school’s common areas had caught the boy, from the time he left his class and went on the toilet.
– It could in fact also confirmed by the teachers, who knew that the boy had left the class, says Torben Jakobsen.
Then the police were summoned. The boy has since been charged and have not been able to give any reasonable explanation for the fact that there has been a fire in the toilet paper.
His alleged action got Thursday the consequence that he has been kicked out of the school. It happened after a meeting with the boy and his parents, and after school has been in dialogue with uddanneslesvejledere and the social authorities in the Municipality of Odense. Uddannelsesvejlederne according to Torben Jakobsen tried to help the boy to get started with another training.
– We can’t have a student walks by, which sets fire to the school furniture, explains Torben Jakobsen.
Thursday, the principal informed the boy’s classmates about the past and the school’s handling of the case. Other school pupils and staff have also received an orientation, tell the dean.
the Boy has unfortunately had some demons to fight with, says Torben Jakobsen to Ekstra Bladet.
After it came to pass am Torben Jakobsen out of the fact that it went worse.
We tested our alert system which worked flawlessly, he says.
Mulernes Legatskole in Odense next year the 300 year anniversary.
