‘Parents detained for reported storming of Amman school’

AMMAN — Police on Saturday announced the arrest of a group of parents who on Thursday allegedly stormed a school in the capital over a fight there between children, official sources said.

All parties involved in the incident where apprehended and referred to the prosecutor for questioning, a senior official source said.

The fight started between children at the school on Thursday and led to their parents storming the school and engaging in a brawl, the source told The Jordan Times.

No one was injured in the incident and no property was damaged, the official added.

“It was a minor incident but nevertheless we summoned everyone involved for questioning,” he explained.

A second official told The Jordan Times that the “two parties dropped charges against each other in front of the prosecutor.”

But the second official was quick to add that “charges could be levelled against them for storming into the educational establishment.”

“All involved parties will be referred to court on Sunday and it is up to the judge to decide their fate,” he added.

The Jordan Teachers Association (JTA) said in a statement released last week that a group of people came in a bus to a boys’ school in the Khreibet Al Souk area and beat teachers and caused damage to their cars.

The alleged assailants were angry because teachers separated two groups of students that engaged in a brawl and sent a student accused of attacking his classmates to the principal’s office, the JTA said.

According to association figures, a total of 39 assaults on teachers were recorded during the first half of 2015, with 10 per cent of the cases referred to court, while the rest were resolved through reconciliation.

The JTA report on assault cases during the January-June period, released recently, said that in the same period of 2014 only 25 cases were recorded.