For its twenty years, the law of March 15, 2004 on secularism in educational establishments deserved better than this new controversy. A young adult girl walks through a Parisian high school with her hair covered in a scarf. The principal objects, he receives death threats on social media and, a month later, takes early retirement for... security reasons.
How can we still be there? The symbol is terrible. It is the civil servant trying to enforce the law — even supported by the minister and received by Gabriel Attal — who must leave the scene. Another version of the “wave step”.
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