TRIBUNE – After the attack on a teacher who asked a student to remove her veil, strong measures must be taken so that fear changes sides and authority and secularism are reestablished in our establishments, believes the essayist Joachim Le Floch-Imad.
Joachim Le Floch-Imad is a professor of general culture in higher education and an essayist. He published “ Tolstoy. A philosophical life » (Cerf, 2023).
« What do you think it means to me that France is becoming Islamized? ? », said Lionel Jospin, in October 1989, during the Creil scarves affair. Thirty-five years after this original resignation, the attacks of those who want to lower France are hitting us with unprecedented intensity. Affected down to the smallest part, the school of the Republic has become the privileged theater of violence, fractures and communitarianism in society. And teachers, 100,000 of whom are threatened or attacked each year, act as targets. A few days before the tribute to Samuel Paty and Dominique Bernard, the blows delivered by a budding Islamist to a teacher ordering her to remove her veil within the school grounds, in accordance with the law, bring…
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