The announcement was made on the institution’s Facebook page on Tuesday, November 25, 2025. “The Institution du Sacré-Cœur was deliberately set on fire. It is not just a building that was burned: years of work have been wiped out, particularly after the many efforts and sacrifices made to rebuild the school affected by the 2010 earthquake,” the administration lamented in its publication.

The administrators describe this act as an attack “on an entire community and on education itself” in a country already in free fall. “This barbaric, irresponsible, and criminal act touches and deeply shocks us. It has destroyed memories and attempted to break the motivation of those who get up every day to learn or to teach,” they added.