Teenager Hospitalised With Head Injuries After Pembroke School Fight Between Maltese And Libyan Students
One of the students involved in an out-of-hand school brawl at St. Clare’s College yesterday has been hospitalised with head injuries.
The 15-year-old boy was allegedly attacked by another student at the secondary school in Pembroke in a fight that involved parents and educators, and needed to be taken to hospital after the incident. Police officers were called onto the scene yesterday afternoon after the situation escalated.
It was reported that the fight involved a Maltese boy and a Libyan boy, one in Form 3 and one in Form 5, and was set off due to tensions stemming from the boy’s nationalities.
The injured boy’s father had reportedly shown up to the school with two others following the attack, fleeing the area before police had arrived. The police put on a search for the father, before he turned himself into the police later yesterday evening. He is currently released on bail as police continue to investigate.
The other boy’s parents entered the school later, when they were called upon.
Two teachers, one male and one female, were injured in the brawl, and were taken to a polyclinic for medical assistance, though the lawyer of the 15-year-old boy, Arthur Azzopardi, told the Times of Malta that the educators’ injuries came from a third party.
“On behalf of the family of the assaulted minor we wish to express our regret at the teachers having been injured. We show our full support and solidarity with the teachers and support all calls made by the relative unions to increase security within schools such as CCTV since had such cameras been in place the police would know who the perpetrator is,” Azzopardi said.
The fight was condemned by both the Education Ministry as well as the Malta Union of Teachers, who spoke strongly against violence in any places of education.
The MUT reiterated their call for security guards to be installed in school around Malta, saying they’ve been saying “the same thing over and over” again.
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