UNI activist Louise Montangon strongly criticized the methods of mobilizing high school students during a televised debate.
During the program “La Grande confrontation” on LCI, Louise Montangon (UNI/RN) strongly questioned high school student Elwan B. about the blockades of schools, denouncing an instrumentalization of the movement and unacceptable violence.
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The debate concerns the blockades of high schools in France and the legitimacy of student demands.
“You are an extremely noisy minority,” Louise Montangon told Elwan B. on LCI this Wednesday, October 7, in “La Grande confrontation” hosted by David Pujadas. The activist National Interuniversity Union (UNI) and RN member is becoming more and more noticed on television sets. Tuesday against Gabriel Attal, Wednesday in confrontation with the high school student dubbed by Jean-Luc Mélenchon and this Thursday morning again in “Les Grandes mouths” on RMC.
“You have stolen the words of those in need,” continues Louise Montangon. The young philosophy student speaks out for those who are outraged by the violence observed in the high school mobilizations: “There are many high school students who want to study, who do not want to be blocked and who, nevertheless, carry your demands. You feel so powerful that you forget that blocking entire schools is illegal. We defend those who want to work, who still believe in the taste for effort, for the excellence that you extract from them.”
“You have nothing legitimate in this movement,” Louise Montangon told Elwan B on LCI.
Even today, “Act IV” is being organized all over France. Conversely, Elwan, a student at a public high school in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, believes that it is “natural to block establishments”. “We are not criminals. At first glance, I am not someone who is going to beat up police officers, I claim to be part of a pacifist movement,” continues the teenager before adding, however: “I understand a certain amount of violence.” A dissonance that his opponent does not intend to let pass on the air of LCI.
“Violence is not legitimate when we see teachers being beaten or doused with gasoline. You have nothing legitimate in this movement,” asserts Louise Montangon with conviction, who recognizes that the demands of the high school students of Paul Éluard, in Saint-Denis, “are legitimate because it is unacceptable to study in such conditions.” The student accuses Elwan and LFI of “taking their places”. “We no longer hear them and it is you who are given the floor. I am almost disappointed not to have a “young person from the suburbs” as you say in front of me,” she asserts. It must be said that a few minutes earlier, Elwan committed a high-level facial offense. Because a mother present on the set that evening is black, he deduced that she lived in a “very difficult area of Marseille”.
The merciless Louise Montangon is launched and there will be no quarter. “The humanist left which advocates equality is false and you embody it perfectly with your little suit, your well-prepared sentences and your crazy eloquence. You have such a smirk. Let those who truly need to protest, do so. Let them speak!” protested the young woman. “You are in the process of recovering everything and I may seem a little aggressive to you, but it is very necessary. You are the useful idiots of this movement. No one talks about your demands anymore, but about the chaos you are causing everywhere in the streets. You are being exploited,” she concludes.

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