According to disseminated videos, two minors argued inside a classroom when one of them took out a sharp object.
Lima, Peru – The General Directorate of Education in the Las Tunas municipality clarified what happened on Tuesday, September 2 during An altercation Between two students at the Wenceslao Rivero basic high school.
The fact caused alarm in social networks due to its seriousness and violent nature. According to videos disseminated on Facebook, two minor students argued within a classroom when one of them took out a sharp object and began to attack his partner.
Eulicer Escalona Escalona, director of Education in the Tunisian capital, said in an official press release that the incident occurred moments before the students’ departure at the end of teaching activities.
“There is an altercation between two students within the classroom, where one with the use of a pencil causes scratches on the face without serious physical consequences, endorsed by a medical certificate of the option that attended it in the Piti Piti Fajardo Polyclinic,” says the manager.
From there they began the analysis of the fact with the students involved and their families, Escalona stands out, “from which the adoption of disciplinary and administrative measures will result to prevent similar facts being repeated.”
Within a newspaper publication The Tunas On the subject, Cuban activist Diasniurka Salcedo Verdecia commented that this type of acts should not be seen as a specific “indiscipline”.
“These types of altercations remind us that behind each blow, push or insult can be the Bullyinga serious problem that affects the lives of thousands of children and adolescents, ”wrote the activist.
Bullying (abuse) is not a game, said Salcedo Verdecia, although sometimes it is minimized as “things of boys.” The reality is that it leaves deep emotional traces and, in many cases, physical and psychological consequences.
The act of violence at Wenceslao Rivero high school occurs in a context of growing concern for public insecurity on the island and just one day after the start of the 2025-2026 school year.
The incident evokes To another fact Gravity that involved several minors in June of last year, during an event called “Start of summer 2024”, held outside the Monkeys farm.
The confrontation involved dozens of young people armed with machetes, sticks and other white weapons, which generated scenes of violence and panic among the attendees. At first, the government reported only two minor injured, but hours later the figure increased to six injured, including at least one minor, as confirmed by the official spokesman Humberto López.
A month after the event, the authorities arrested several young people – with ages between 16 and 20 years – allegedly involved in the events. These were charged with the crimes of public disorders and illegal possession of white weapons, as part of criminal investigation.
