– I can confirm that there was an incident of violence at the school which we will now follow closely, says crime chief Daniel Holm at Sarpsborg police station. On Wednesday morning, the police went to Tindlund secondary school in Sarpsborg after reports of a fight out of control. Pupils from several levels must have been involved. – Arguments and fights were the beginning of the incident. The police were called and came to the scene and calmed the whole thing down, says Holm. According to Sarpsborg Arbeiderblad, which first wrote about the case, the secondary school is closed on Thursday morning. Teachers went between The police tell news that one person was sent to the emergency room after the incident. Headmaster Jo Skjølsvold says that several teachers had to break into the fight between the young people. – There are seven students who are involved in a fight. There were probably at least as many adults involved to separate them and hold them in front of each other. The school has just under 350 pupils. Seven pupils have been expelled from the school following the incident. These pupils will receive an alternative offer from the municipality for the rest of the week. The police had to go to the school on Wednesday after reports of a fight out of control. Photo: Petter Larsson / news The school management has chosen to keep the students at home this morning so that the staff can make plans for how to handle the situation and ensure that it does not happen again. The students will return to school after lunch today. – It will be taken up in all the classes after lunch and we will go through the episode with the students. Then we take care to look after the students, says Skjølsvold. The municipality: – Unacceptable Sarpsborg municipality is aware that there have been challenges in the student environment at the school for a long time. There have been episodes and smaller incidents also earlier last autumn. Director of education, Erik Bråthen, is aware that fights are not okay at school. – This is completely unacceptable behaviour. We expect you not to behave like that when you are at school, or in a larger group during your free time. We have close and good cooperation with the police, and will cooperate with them in the further work as well. The parents at the school have been notified of the incident. – It is clear that it is undesirable. We don’t want a school environment like that, says FAU leader Christian Claussen. Bråthen says that parents of pupils at Tindlund have no more reason to worry than parents of children at other schools. – They have good employees, and a management that takes the situation seriously. But there are disturbances in youth environments in many places now, and we are working together with our employees as a preventive measure to ensure as best as possible that such incidents do not occur again, says the director of education. The police are investigating The police have now contacted guardians, parents and the school management to possibly introduce preventive measures at the school. A criminal case has not yet been established. – I think it is important to take this seriously and uncover the parties involved and get to the bottom of the sequence of events. First of all, we have to identify the people who we have to follow up closely further, says Crime Chief Holm.
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