A new controversy broke out at Lyon 2 University, the “shocked” Minister of Education

The Minister of Higher Education Philippe Baptiste said on Tuesday that “very serious” remarks on the Lebanese Hezbollah attributed to a vice-president of the University of Lyon 2 were reported to justice.

The Vice-President of Lyon 2 resigns

Willy Beauvallet-Haddad, who remains a lecturer in political science, announced his colleagues on Monday on Monday resign Vice-presidency to “lower the very strong pressure” which weighs on the establishment.

In his message, made public by several recipients, the researcher ensures that he was targeted by a “public denigration campaign (…) due to personal positions relating to the situation in Palestine and Lebanon”, without giving details.

A tribute to the Hezbollah chief in question

“He had previously paid tribute to (Hassan) Nasrallah therefore head of Hezbollah,” the Minister of Higher Education on France 2. said on Tuesday. “A report was made” to the justice system for “these facts which can Set of the apology of terrorism“, He added.

On X, Willy Beauvallet-Haddad has replied several messages of support for the Palestinian people but their Facebook account is no longer accessible. The UNI right -wing student Union has reproduced a screenshot of a message attributed to the researcher, in which Hassan Nasrallah, killed in an Israeli strike in September 2024, is described as “a fraternal figure” which joined “the pantheon (…) of the great characters in history”.

The Lebanese, pro-Iranian Hezbollah and ally of Palestinian Hamas is considered a terrorist organization by Israel and the United States. Its armed branch is also by the European Union.

The Minister of Education “deeply shocked”

“I am deeply shocked and I do not see how we can be vice-president of a university when you write like this,” said Philippe Baptiste. “I take note of the fact that he has deposited his resignation, obviously it does not interrupt anything,” he continued: “It is up to the justice to work”.

The Lyon prosecutor’s office has not yet made it known if he had received this report. Mr. Beauvallet-Haddad and the university did not respond to the requests of theAFP.

A new episode after the intrusion of hooded people

This episode occurs while the Lyon 2 University has been in turmoil since the intrusion, on April 1, of a group of hooded people during a course in Fabrice Balanche, specialist in Iraq and Syria. Strongly took part by activists the taxing of “racist” and “Zionist”, he had interrupted his course.

The incident sparked a large conviction and the prosecution, seized by the university, opened an investigation for “hindering the exercise of the teaching function”.

Another investigation was opened on death threats Addressed to the president of Lyon 2, Isabelle von Bueltzingsloewen, after an interview in which she denounced “intolerable facts” but also the “conspiracy words” of Fabrice Balanche who mentioned in many media “Islamo-leftism” in force according to him in Lyon 2.

AFP

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