The PS and environmentalists criticized the Reconquest party on Thursday! by Éric Zemmour, at the origin of a series of “threats” on social media against a teacher from Valenciennes whose school trip with migrants from Calais had to be cancelled.
The teacher was supposed to take his Hypokhâgne preparatory class to the Watteau high school in Valenciennes on Friday to meet an association in support of exiles, as part of an interdisciplinary educational project, entitled + exile and borders +”.
But the trip, the details of which were released on social media on Monday by the “network of vigilant parents”, close to the far-right party Reconquest!, was canceled “for safety” by the rectorate of Lille.
“This story is edifying. (Eric) Zemmour’s party uses the same methods and intimidation as radical Islamists to put pressure on teachers,” PS first secretary Olivier Faure denounced on Twitter, seeing it as “legitimizing violence”. which “caused a murder” in the case of Samuel Paty two years ago.
The 47-year-old history and geography professor was stabbed and then beheaded on October 16, 2020, near his college in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine (Yvelines), by a radicalized young man who accused him of showing caricatures of Mohammed in class .
In a press release, Environment Councilor Benjamin Lucas called for Zemmour’s “dissolution of the movement”, denouncing “the same terrifying trials of the Islamists, with threats and insults”. He called on the government to “protect educational staff, students and the school community”.
In contrast, RN deputy Sébastien Chenu estimated on the set of the Public Senate that “this teacher (had) acted as an activist and not as an educator”. “A teacher has to pass on knowledge, or going dragging children to a migrant center means taking a political stand,” he said.
“Reconquest has done its duty: to alert public opinion,” Eric Zemmour’s party replied in a statement. “A pro-migrant activist uses her status as a teacher to indoctrinate students. It is absolutely unbearable with respect to the principle of neutrality that must govern the education of our children.”
The party “reserves the right to take legal action against the rectorate and the institute for violating the obligation of neutrality of our teaching” and promises to attack “anyone who accuses the movement of + threatening + a teacher”.
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