Eight Sciences Po students were summoned to the disciplinary section after the occupation, on March 12, of an amphitheater renamed “amphi Gaza”. At the end of around forty hearings carried out by an internal investigation unit, chaired by former magistrate Catherine Fischer-Hirtz, the author of the sentence “Don’t let her in, she’s a Zionist” which would have been addressed to a member of the Union of Jewish Students of France (UEJF) could not be identified, regrets in an interview with Parisian, Thursday May 23, the provisional administrator of the establishment, Jean Bassères.
In a message sent Thursday to the school community, including The world had a copy, Jean Bassères announced that “the investigation made it possible to establish the holding of contrary acts and remarks [au] regulations and the values of Sciences Po, on March 12”. Among these acts, he details, “we include the occupation of the amphitheater, the screening of a student at the entrance, comments of a discriminatory nature made against the Union of Jewish Students of France, comments denigrating Sciences Po and its staff , as well as an act of intimidation against a teacher”. He adds that, “despite his in-depth investigations, [la cellule d’enquête] was unable to identify the author(s) of the sentence in question.
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The event had become a matter of state, the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, having denounced remarks “unspeakable and completely intolerable”. Around a hundred students participated in this surprise mobilization, in the university coordination call against colonization in Palestine, a network which presents itself as made up of researchers, teacher-researchers and committed students. “to end the genocidal war and colonization in Palestine”.
Proven words
On March 13, alongside the Minister of Higher Education, Sylvie Retailleau, the Prime Minister, Gabriel Attal, announced the referral to the public prosecutor and invited himself to the board of directors of the National Science Foundation politicians, school governance body, concerned about a “form of slope, of drift linked to an active and dangerous minority, at Sciences Po”.
In The ParisianJean Bassères reports that, following the internal investigation, “there is a conviction that sentence “Don’t let her in, she’s a Zionist” was uttered in one form or another”. Nearby Worldthe management of Sciences Po explains that “witnesses interviewed reported similar formulations, but which did not match this sentence word for word”their stories do not allow us to identify the author of the remarks, man or woman.
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