Yaël Braun-Pivet targeted by anti-Semitic tags during her visit to Lyon III University

Yaël Braun-Pivet was expected at 5 p.m. at Lyon III University where she was to hold a conference. But from the beginning of the afternoon, pro-Palestinian students covered the walls of the university with tags hostile to the President of the National Assembly and to Israel. “Yaël accomplice”, “Yaël get lost”, “Israel murderer”, could we read on the walls of Lyon III. Tags quickly erased.

“We actually have the impression that she is actively campaigning for a state that is not ours”

But a few minutes later, these same student activists managed to enter the campus to tell Yaël Braun-Pivert that she was not welcome: “Accomplices to the genocide, outside our universities,” shout these demonstrators. Ricardo, a communist student, was among them: “It’s not even her coming in itself that shocks me, it’s her pro-Israel activism which is quite shocking. We actually have the impression that she’s campaigning actively for a state that is not ours We are in France, and in France, we defend French citizens and we are not here to support a genocide in Palestine.

Finally, the campus was evacuated and the perimeter secured by the police, CRS and mobile gendarmes who came in large numbers. And Yaël Braun-Pivet was able to arrive at Lyon III, she absolutely wanted to: “It is particularly damaging that some prefer invective and obstruction rather than dialogue. I am here today to discuss with the students. C They are the ones who invited me and I would have found it very serious, in our democracy, if I could not do it. And that is why I absolutely wanted to maintain my presence in the university. In any case, I will never give up.”

The President of the National Assembly, who, half an hour late, was therefore able to hold her conference in front of an audience of some students and in a university which had finally become calm again.