Christian Estrosi: “Violence, rejection of secularism are part of the daily lives of teachers”
Called, on TF1, to react to the incident that occurred yesterday in Tourcoing (North), where a student was placed in police custody, on suspicion of having slapped a teacher at her high school who allegedly asked her to remove her veil, the vice-president of the Horizons party, Christian Estrosi, estimated that “violence and the rejection of secularism are part of the daily lives of teachers”and that “every time a teacher wants to remind people of the law, they risk being hit.”
According to him, “systematically, there must be exclusion of the student”, as well as “legal proceedings” against the student, but also against his family if it is proven that « [son] education encourages that.” “We owe it to all children”he continued.
“This is not an isolated incident,” judged the mayor of Nice, who considered that ” a lot “ happened « avant [l’assassinat terroriste de l’enseignant] Samuel Paty, who was a sort of revelator.”
According to a police source cited by Agence France-Presse, the teacher at the Sévigné high school in Tourcoing asked a student to remove her veil in the courtyard, but the high school student, who was preparing to leave establishment, would have refused. The student then allegedly slapped his teacher, who responded by slapping him in turn, according to this source, according to whom the student then struck his teacher several times.
“A precautionary measure has already been taken against the student in question to prohibit him from accessing the establishment until his disciplinary council meets”said the Minister of Education, Anne Genetet, on X.
