The President of the National Assembly wanted to talk with everyone but was faced with a certain amount of hostility. Arriving at Lyon-3 University on Friday, Yaël Braun-Pivet found herself confronted with tags hostile to Israel, then slogans chanted by pro-Palestinian demonstrators.
“Yaël get out of there”, “genocidal perpetrators outside our universities”, “Free Gaza” or “Free Palestine”: several messages in large letters had been tagged during the night near the campus. Some were quickly deleted. More than 100 demonstrators continued in the same vein in the afternoon, chanting “criminal Israel, Yaël complicit” or “Yaël, get out of there, Lyon-3 is not yours” near the university.
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“It is particularly damaging that some prefer invective, prefer obstruction rather than dialogue. I was completely ready to talk with them if they wished,” she told journalists upon entering the faculty.
The Minister of the Interior Bruno Retailleau denounced on X a “fascist drift of activists who exploit the tragedy experienced by the Palestinians”. “Total support for Yaël Braun-Pivet, whom far-left demonstrators with anti-Semitic ideas want to ban from a university. The Republic is at home everywhere,” wrote Minister Les Républicains (LR).
In a short press release, the Lyon-3 Jean-Moulin University “condemns with the greatest firmness the unacceptable and scandalous registrations which have been tagged”, and announces that the matter has been taken to court.
