awaited by demonstrators at the Gare de Lyon on Monday, the Minister of Education Pap Ndiaye denounces a “temptation of violence”

The scene was symbolic of the difficulty for members of the government to move around without being challenged by opponents of the pension reform. Returning from an already disrupted trip to Lyon on Monday, the Minister of National Education Pap Ndiaye was expected by dozens of demonstrators in the hall of the Gare de Lyon in Paris. After waiting a few minutes in his train, he was finally escorted out of the building via the basement of the platforms. “What happened yesterday is worrying”he denounces Tuesday, April 25 on franceinfo.

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The gathering at the Gare de Lyon had no “not much to do with a protest”believes Pap Ndiaye, establishing a distinction with those who had welcomed him earlier in the day in Lyon, where participants had tried to enter an institute he was to visit.

“There is, I think, a temptation to violence among a certain number of people who went to the Gare de Lyon, not all of them”continues the Minister of Education. “I met some of them whose violent words may suggest that they could physically attack me”.

Earlier on Tuesday, Pap Ndiaye had reacted on Twitter to one of the calls to demonstrate launched against him on Monday, which he believes were inviting violence.