The vice-president of the staff and the budget of the University Lyon 2 resigns, claiming to be a victim of “harassment” against the backdrop of the Balanche business.
“The purpose of this choice is to lower the very strong pressure that weighs on the institution and to protect its interests in the particularly difficult context it crosses.“Monday, May 5, the vice-president in charge of staff and the budget of the Lumière Lyon 2 University, Willy Beauvallet-Hadad announced his resignation in an email addressed to university members.
A decision taken “Following harassment and the public denigration campaign for which I have been the object for several weeks due to personal positions relating to the situation in Palestine and Lebanon, itself in connection with that which targets the University of Lyon 2 as a whole and its president in particular“He says.
A tribute to Hassan Nasrallah who does not pass
Indeed, an article published on the Atlantico site reproached Willy Beauval-Haddad a post published on his social networks on the death of Hassan Nasrallah, former Hezbollah chief. “”He died in the midst of his family for the great cause (Palestinian and Arabic) and he joined the pantheon of our hearts and the great characters in history“, Written the lecturer in political science. words that some assimilate to the apology of terrorism.
These messages were thus exhumed while he was criticized for the president of the University of not having sufficiently supported the lecturer and elected to Caluire-et-Cuire, Fabrice Balanche, a course of which was interrupted by masked individuals with cries of “racist, Zionists, you are the terrorists“. An action claimed by the Lyon2autonome group, which claims to be” anti-colon “and” anti-France “. He was notably accused of Fabrice Balanche for opposing young people during Ramadan within the University, but also his positions on the CNews channel denouncing”Islamo-leftism“In Lyon 2.
The “Balanche affair” went back to the top of the state. Prime Minister François Bayrou had denounced one “unacceptable communitarian pressure “. The Minister of National Education Elisabeth Borne had supported the academic Lyonnais on X: “What happened at Lyon 2 University on Tuesday, April 1 is unacceptable“. As for the Minister of Higher Education, he had split a press release: “Nothing can justify that masked and hooded individuals threaten a professor and forced him to interrupt his course. We cannot accept it and we will not accept it”. In an interview with the Parisian, Philippe Baptiste had added that“Prohibiting a teacher from doing lessons is extremely serious. These are acts that are the opposite of what the university must be: a place of debate and openness.”
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Politicians are demanding the resignation of the president
In an interview with our colleagues from Tribune de Lyon following these events, the president of the Lumière Lyon 2 University, Isabelle Bueltzingsloewen thus indicated “be surprised“The interruption of the course of Fabrice Balanche, lecturer in geography, due in particular to his”Positioning on Gaza“. If she deplored”intolerable facts“, The president of the university regretted to our colleagues”distressing words, conspirators and deleterious for the university“From Fabrice Balanche.
Words that aroused the ire of part of the political class, especially on the right. Judging his reaction “inadmissible“, The president LR of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region Fabrice Pannekoucke and his predecessor who became special advisor, Laurent Wauquiez, asked the Minister of Higher Education an inspection mission on”worrying drifts“Within Lyon 2. In the Metropolis of Lyon, the mayor LR of Bron, Jérémie Bréaud also called for the resignation of the president of Lyon 2 after having received Fabrice Balanche, also elected to the municipal council of Caluire-et-Cuire.
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“I will continue to commit myself to the full application of international law and human rights in Palestine and the Middle East“
The France Universities association which brings together managers of establishments has provided its support to Ms. von Bueltzingsloewen “Victim of an unacceptable and sterile controversy over the fantasies of Islamo-leftism and wokism at university“The mayor of Lyon also supported the president of the university, while the Lyon prosecutor’s office opened an investigation into the heads of” death threat to a person in charge of a public service and online harassment mission “, entrusted to the police of the territorial crime division (DCT).
“I will also continue to engage, with heart and reason, for the full application of international law and human rights in Palestine and the Middle East, on the anti-racist and universalist foundations which have always been mine“, Indicates Willy Beauvallet in his email. And to conclude:”We cannot remain impassive and speechless in the face of what Amnesty International, among other major organizations and institutions, still qualified a few days ago as “live genocide”.“
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