Mobilization of high school students: Sébastien Lecornu announces a suspension of classes at the end of the week for “a time of internal democracy”

Faced with the high school mobilization, Act III of which took place on Tuesday October 6, Sébastien Lecornu announced the suspension of classes at the high school at the end of the week to organize a “time of internal democracy” with the students who demonstrated again on Tuesday to demand additional resources for their establishments.

The Minister of National Education Édouard Geffray “decided to free up time. From tomorrow morning, from Thursday, from Friday, complete standardization of timetables to allow each management team, each principal, to have time for internal democracy within the high school,” affirmed the Prime Minister before the National Assembly.

“Burning a high school does not improve the situation”

“We cannot leave a space of tolerance for violence,” however, affirmed Sébastien Lecornu before the National Assembly, calling on the political class to “become one” with the civil servants affected by this violence.

“In a functioning democracy, the individual responsibility of individuals, of citizens, including minors, exists”, “burning a high school does not improve the building situation of high schools”, “lynching a teacher does not improve the replacement rate of teachers”, declared the Prime Minister, during the government questions session. “There is no public service in the Republic without the political class uniting behind” the civil servants, he added, deeming it “not acceptable” that there is “a trivialization of this violence against national education personnel”.

The “political project to mess up the country”

The Prime Minister also had words for the radical left, which he accused of having a “political project to mess up the country” before the presidential election. Talking about “political instructions of police repression” against the demonstrations of high school students is a “lie”, assured Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu on Tuesday, who spoke of “accidents” and criticized La France insoumise for “blowing on the embers”.

“Can accidents happen in such a sensitive public order maneuver? The answer is yes. And I say accident since I also see the terminology that is used of police violence. Police violence would suggest that there are political instructions for police repression. It’s false, it’s a lie and it casts shame on the police of the Republic,” declared Sébastien Lecornu before the National Assembly.