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Emmanuel Macron is due to go to Arras on Friday October 13 with the Ministers of the Interior and Education, after a teacher was killed in a knife attack. Reaction from Philippe Fait, deputy for Pas-de-Calais.
Philippe Fait, Renaissance deputy for Pas-de-Calais, shares his “sadness” and his “consternation”, Friday October 13, after the assassination of a professor in Arras (Pas-de-Calais). “Because (…) the Samuel Paty episode, which is still very vivid in our memories, and which will remain very vivid, is happening again today. I am of course thinking of the victims who were killed and injured. All my thoughts go out to their families and especially to the teaching world, all the educational staff”reacts the latter, himself a teacher.
Well-being at school “goes (…) through secularism”
Philippe Fait, also rapporteur for the “School Education” mission, recalls having worked during the year on “thee well-being at school.” “Well-being at school requires (…) what was hammered out I think at the start of the school year by the Minister of National Education, secularism, and of course the citizenship”, he adds, specifying that he “It is urgent to clearly mark our republican freedom on the subject.
In Pas-de-Calais, have security reinforcements been put in place in recent days? “Of course, following the attacks and what is happening in Israel”replies Philippe Fait.