“It is significant since it is part of a series of increasingly narrow attacks,” reacts the secretary general of the SE-UNSA

“It’s significant since it’s part of a series of increasingly narrow attacks and dramas” reacts Élisabeth Allain-Moreno, general secretary of SE-Unsa on franceinfo Tuesday March 26 after the resignation of the principal of the Maurice-Ravel school campus in Paris. He received death threats online after asking a student to remove her veil at the end of February.

The teacher emphasizes “the fear” staff, despite “the support provided by the institution” : “staff members no longer have confidence in the systems put in place, they prefer to protect their lives”, referring to the assassination of Dominique Bernard in Arras last October. She completes: “Gabriel Attal’s announcements on support cells [aux situations d’urgence] are not reassuring enough to say that we are safe to exercise.

Added to this are threats increasingly spread via social networks, “thus which go beyond the framework of school” and which increase the feeling of fear, according to the trade unionist. “On the one hand, the fear is accentuated because it is very real and on the other, there is a feeling of increased omnipotence, and the imbalance is more and more important, and difficult to reverse”deplores Élisabeth Allain-Moreno.