In front of the Plaine-de-Neauphle high school this Monday, the students are bitter.
Since Didier Lemaire, professor of philosophy in the establishment, spoke on television and on the radio, it is incomprehension.
The teacher, who now lives "under police surveillance" because of threats, describes since this weekend how the city of Trappes (Yvelines) would be under the influence of the Islamist movement.
Even if not all do not have it as a teacher, this Monday morning in class, the high school students "only talk about that".
By denouncing in many media the Islamist hold in Trappes, Didier Lemaire as on LCI this Monday morning, made many enemies.
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When Anna * discovered his words on Twitter Sunday evening, the second grade student was “disappointed” by his teacher.
Especially when he mentions that "Trappes is a city definitely lost".
Especially since the one who attends his class every Wednesday for two hours, explains that "it is the first to say that in Trappes there are beautiful things".
A "good teacher" less and less popular
The young girl who does not understand "why he told all that", even if she recognizes that Trappes is "a city where there were problems" although "everyone is doing their own thing and everyone does not care. religions ”.
"Shocked", she would even have liked "to be on set in front of him to contradict him".
According to his friend Julie *, a student in the same class,: “Mr. Lemaire is a good teacher who motivates his students and in his lessons, there is a lot of debate”.
But since the teacher's media outings, he's been less and less popular among high school students.
"He wishes to be in the light"
While in the establishment there is a "good understanding between teachers and students", Anna and Julie believe that Didier Lemaire wanted to show "an erroneous image of the city and its inhabitants".
For the young girls, their teacher is "someone who talks a lot about himself and who wants to be in the light, he knew that his statements would be controversial."
Didier Lemaire is a teacher at the Plaine-de-Neauphle high school in Trappes.
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Anna has decided not to attend her next class on Wednesday with the teacher.
While no communication has been issued by the management of the school, the student predicts that the meeting will be "eventful".
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For its part, the Academy of Versailles received the teacher on Monday and specifies that Didier Lemaire will continue to teach in this high school in accordance with his wishes.
"That's it, it's starting again"
A few hundred meters further on, in the city of Merisiers, most of the Crusader inhabitants are not yet aware of the media appearances of the professor of philosophy.
"That's it, it starts again", laments Hafida.
This mother, who has lived in Trappes for forty years, does not agree with the description of the town.
“Since young people left for Syria, it is true that Trappes has a bad image.
But cafes forbidden to women or single-sex hairdressing salons, "that's rubbish."
“I regularly go to the hairdresser and there are a lot of men, that's normal,” she says.
At the time of the homage to Samuel Paty, the forty-something has also expressly asked her son in final school how it happened: "He told me that everyone had observed the minute of silence, here we are. do not agree to kill people for a drawing ”.
* First names have been changed