Former Prime Minister Gabriel Attal will launch his association to fight against school bullying, called “Faire face”. A fight that the MP has been waging for years now, but which is also a political marker.
Gabriel Attal will launch his association this Wednesday to fight against school bullying: “Faire face”. It will be the day before the day dedicated to this cause (November 7, 2024). For Gabriel Attal, it is a cause which is a personal fight, but also a political marker. “We're not going to lie to each other, it allows him to have an identified political object,” confides one of his close friends. A former minister very close to Gabriel Attal is also convinced: “Of course school bullying is is a marker.” “He must continue to raise this subject,” she adds, aware of the political ambitions of the former Prime Minister.
However, it is impossible to doubt the sincerity of Gabriel Attal. Last year, then Minister of National Education, he himself said that he had suffered academic harassment in middle school and had made it a priority. “It hits him in the gut,” said one of his close advisors. He devotes time to it. Two thirds of the letters he receives talk about school bullying. He established a bond of trust with the families of victims.
An initiative welcomed by the Ministry of Education
A few hours before his handover of power with Michel Barnier, Gabriel Attal was at the white march in memory of young Nicolas, a year after his suicide. He was the victim of school bullying. The teenager's mother will also be co-president of the foundation launched by Gabriel Attal with Elian Potier, at the head of the Urgence harassment association. All of them will become, with artists in particular, ambassadors of this cause to establishments.
This foundation, which Gabriel Attal had already imagined when he was at Matignon, will also be intended to provide legal and financial support to the families concerned. A way for Gabriel Attal to extend the action initiated when he was in government, explains one of his followers. “He wants to have one foot outside the doldrums of the Assembly,” assumes another.
At the risk of offending the education sector? The representative of a teachers' union sees it as a political strategy behind it. “We never do too much about harassment,” she says, but she believes that it blurs the lines, overwhelming what National Education does. In any case, the ministry views the initiative very favorably. The day after the launch of the foundation, a day dedicated to the fight against harassment, Gabriel Attal will travel to an establishment in the Paris region.
