The Prime Minister declared on Wednesday on TF1 that “the State will be[it] always alongside its agents, those who are on the front line facing these attacks on secularism.”
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The Prime Minister announced Wednesday March 27 that the State “was going to file a complaint” For “slanderous denunciation” against the student who wrongly accused the principal of her Parisian high school of having assaulted her after she refused to remove her veil. “The State, the institution, will always stand alongside its agents, those who are on the front line facing these attacks on secularism”argued Gabriel Attal on TF1, the day after the announcement of the departure of the principal of the Maurice-Ravel high school, who has been threatened with death since the incident.
“Laicity” East “constantly put to the test. And we see, there is a form of Islamist entryism which manifests itself in particular in our educational establishments”declared the head of government. “This entryism, these attacks recently caused two victims in the National Education family, Dominique Bernard and Samuel Paty”, he said. These two teachers were killed in Islamist attacks, Samuel Paty in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine (Yvelines) in October 2020 and Dominique Bernard in Arras (Pas-de-Calais), in October 2023.
On Wednesday afternoon, the Prime Minister received the principal of the Maurice-Ravel high school for an hour. “I really want to pay tribute to him because he has great dignity in this ordeal. He was due to retire in June. (…) Some advised him, for security reasons, to leave for a while earlier”he said.
