
A selection of points of view on high school blockades, the rule of law and the situation of Jews in Europe.
Review of columns published in Le Figaro addressing the violence during high school blockades, the use of force by the State and community tensions in Europe following the massacres of October 7.
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Le Figaro regularly publishes columns on social and political tensions in France. These texts react to recent events such as high school blockades and debates on anti-Semitism.
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Omar Youssef Souleimane: “Why do French high school students break things while young Syrians stay away from it? »
TRIBUNE - In 2011, Syrian demonstrators were careful to remain peaceful so as not to discredit their cause and avoid proving Bashar el-Assad right, analyzes the Franco-Syrian journalist*. An attitude that contrasts with the violence of certain high school students on the fringes of the blockades, he adds.
Blockades of high schools: “Emmanuel Macron, the rule of law does not mean the powerlessness of the State”
FIGAROVOX/TRIBUNE - According to Le Parisien, the head of state recently asked for more “empathy” and “pedagogy” in maintaining order in the face of high school anger. An inversion of values which forgets that the rule of law also requires the use of force when necessary, believe jurists Guilhem Carayon, Luc Fontaine and Noëlle Lenoir.
“Jew and French, I refuse to be annexed to the rejection of Muslims”: Claude Askolovitch’s response to the alert from 5 personalities
TRIBUNE - In an article published by Le Figaro, on the occasion of the three years of the October 7 massacres, five personalities, including Stéphane Azihari and Élisabeth Badinter, believe that “the fate of the Jews of Europe is deteriorating as the continent becomes Islamized”. The journalist* answers them.

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A schoolboy went armed with a rifle to the Lakanal school in Aubagne on Monday to shoot his teachers, in a context of youthful unease and loss of societal reference points in France, according to the article which also mentions school blockages and recent violence.

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