Anger of high school students: Laurent Nuñez and Édouard Geffray heard Wednesday at the National Assembly

The Ministers of the Interior Laurent Nuñez and of National Education Édouard Geffray will be heard on Wednesday by deputies in the National Assembly, the day after Act III of a vast high school movement under high tension.

Édouard Geffray will be heard at 10 a.m. “on the blocking of high schools” in the Cultural Affairs and Education Committee. Laurent Nuñez will be heard at 3 p.m. by the deputies who are members of the Laws Committee “on the management of public order following high school mobilizations and the protection of people in the face of violence”.

The two ministers have already been questioned at length during questions to the government on Tuesday, where the questions from the deputies largely focused on this high school movement, of which many deputies on the left denounce the “repression”. “There is obviously no question here of excusing or legitimizing acts of destruction,” declared socialist deputy Roger Vicot in the Chamber. But “the question of the doctrine of employment of our police forces now arises truly and painfully”. “We will continue to do what we do, to maintain order, to intervene whenever there is violence with proportionality,” insisted Laurent Nuñez, in response to the deputy of the environmentalist group Benjamin Lucas-Lundy who demanded his resignation.

215 students injured

A 16-year-old high school student lost the use of one eye during a blockade and a 15-year-old had his hand torn off by a grenade in Lens. Since the start of the movement in mid-September, 215 students have been injured, a majority “either in accidents”, “or by other external individuals”, according to Matignon. 715 police officers or gendarmes were also injured, according to the same source. The Minister of Education deplored on Tuesday that the high school students' demands had been “confiscated” by “unspeakable violence”.