10 years after the January 2015 attacks against the editorial staff of Charlie Hebdo, Valérie Pécresse assures that “teachers are on the front line in the fight against terrorism and against obscurantism”.
Published on 06/01/2025 09:27
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“The fight against terrorism is still relevant”assures on franceinfo Monday January 6, Valérie Pécresse, president of the Île-de-France region, 10 years after the Charlie Hebdo tragedy. “We have a duty to remember, but also to protect”she adds. The Ile-de-France region is mobilizing in Ile-de-France high schools by launching a “pedagogical operation” in connection with Charlie Hebdo from Tuesday with the presentation of 12 caricatures from the satirical weekly.
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“The Bataclan remains a huge wound, a huge pain,” assures Valérie Pécresse, head of the region during the attacks of January 2015.“The children entering second grade were 5 years old, we have to tell them again what happened”recalls the president of Île-de-France LR. “Yes, in France, we have the right to laugh at everything, we have the right to caricature, we have the right to make fun, it’s a freedom”insists Valérie Pécresse, who counts on teachers and secularism kits in high schools to get the message across.
“Teachers are on the front line in the fight against terrorism and obscurantism”she assures. After this project of presentation and explanation of the Charlie caricatures, the region will launch “an inter-high school caricature competition”. “10 years later, we no longer realize how precious our freedom is, how much we must fight to preserve it”underlines the president of Île-de-France.
