Another Jena Fact December 29, 2007
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Official: 2006 Jena school fire was arson, not related to race
JENA (AP) — The 2006 fire that badly damaged the high school in this east-central Louisiana town was set by people intending to destroy grade records and had nothing to do with the racial tension that led to a civil rights demonstration here three months ago, a law enforcement official said Friday.
LaSalle Parish Sheriff-elect Scott Franklin said six males, including three juveniles, were arrested Thursday and faced aggravated arson counts. Another two men considered suspects remained at large, he said.
“These young men were simply trying to get rid of their bad grades and to shut the school down. They failed on both accounts,” Franklin told a news conference.
Franklin said all the suspects are from Jena, and four were Jena High School students at the time of the fire. Some are black and some are white, he said.
The Nov. 30, 2006, fire destroyed several classrooms, offices and science labs. It happened a few months after the appearance of nooses in a campus tree - a move that resulted in the suspension of three white students - and a few days before a group of black students attacked and beat a white classmate.
Also remember that the noose incident and the beating three months later were unrelated. So it turns out that everything that happened in Jena was “a series of unfortunate events” that the civil rights industry and the Paranoia-Industrial Complex made into a conspiracy.
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