At the end of the afternoon, Friday October 13, 2023, around fifty teachers gathered at Place Stanislas in Nancy to pay their respects after the death of a teacher in a high school in Arras (Pas-de-Calais), stabbed to death by an assailant with an “S” file.
At the call of several unions including the Fédération Syndicale Unitaire de Meurthe-et-Moselle (FSU), several dozen teachers gathered in Nancy in front of the town hall. They wanted to show their support for the family of their colleague murdered in Arras on Friday October 13. They also intended to demonstrate the need to continue their work despite everything.
“The legitimacy of our work, enlightenment against obscurantism, is still relevant today” explains this professor of economics and social sciences into the microphone of our team on site, “we must mobilize again, be present, and resignify our function to everyone“. A history teacher carries a sign that says she is not afraid to teach her subject: “I’ve been teaching for two years, and this is the second teacher to die from the same causes. We will never retreat in the face of attacks against freedom, fraternity, secularism“.
This other teacher “just wants to cry, for all these deaths, for the family, it’s an accumulation, with everything that’s been happening these last few days“. Several teachers talk about a minute of silence to come in their establishment: “we feel deep sadness, but fear, absolutely not“.
The municipality of Saint-Dié called for a minute of silence on Monday October 16, 2023 in front of the statue of Jules Ferry at noon.