Sophie Cluzel, Secretary of State for Disability, on Saturday January 15 castigated Eric Zemmour’s remarks on the education of disabled students. She denounced “a pitiful statement” of the far-right candidate who said the day before that he was in favor of the “specialized establishments” for children with disabilities.
“I think the obsession with inclusion is a bad way for other children and for those children, who are the poor, completely overwhelmed by other children. So I think we need specialized teachers who are ‘occupy it’, said Eric Zemmour during a discussion with teachers committed to his cause in Honnecourt-sur-Escaut (North).
Asked about BFMTV, Sophie Cluzel claimed to be “very angry” and criticized a “miserable vision” and “exclusive” of disability. “Of course it’s complicated, but it’s really an honor for France to be able to educate these children with others, among others”, she added.
The Secretary of State in charge of Disability is not the only one to have reacted to the remarks of the candidate of the Reconquest party! Damien Abad, the leader of the LR deputies, himself with a disability, denounced on Twitter remarks “scandalous”, asking Eric Zemmour for “public apology”. National Rally candidate Marine Le Pen judged on Twitter “unforgivable” of “Tackling children weakened by a disability”. The communist candidate, Fabien Roussel, said to himself, on the same social network, “repelled by the proposal” by Eric Zemmour, comparing it to a “apartheid society”.
Eric Zemmour qualified his remarks on Saturday in Villers-Cotterêts (Aisne). “What I wanted to say is that I don’t want the obsession with inclusion to deprive us and lead us to neglect the need for specialized establishments”, did he declare. “I think it’s an ideological position, as always. We decided it was better to put everyone together. I don’t think so”, “not to put them away but to take better care of them”.