Pap Ndiaye said Sunday that "about 500 cases" of attacks on secularism had been identified in March in schools, colleges and high schools. "There is always a rise, every year at the time of Ramadan," he said without specifying the nature of these attacks.

The rector of the Mosque of Paris expressed this Wednesday his "great incomprehension" after the remarks made by the Minister of Education Sunday, May 7 on a "rise" in attacks at school during Ramadan.