The two teachers who admitted having sprinkled Jean-Michel Blanquer with whipped cream, campaigning for the legislative elections on Saturday in Montargis, explained to AFP on Monday June 7 that they had not premeditated their act and denounced on Twitter a National Education in "
fall free
”.
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Jean-Michel Blanquer was campaigning in a market when he received whipped cream in the face, before filing a complaint.
On their Twitter account “
ProfsChantillyonneurs
” which they created on Sunday, Christophe and Olivier, two teachers of technology and plastic arts in REP college, explain their gesture at length in a schoolboy video entitled “
Blanquer mousse-Montargis-Chantilly gate
”.
Violence suffered on a daily basis
"
We were going to the market and it's strawberry season
," Christophe told AFP, who denied any premeditated desire to attack candidate Blanquer.
Teachers for 20 years, the two men aged 51 and 57 accused of having used violence against the former minister, recount in their video the violence suffered on a daily basis within the educational institution.
“
Violence is 12% of students who arrive in 6th grade and who are unable to read or understand a text.
How many come out of the school system humiliated, despised, and without a solution for the future?
“, they ask.
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"
Violence is physical attacks and insults on a daily basis
", it is "
the lack of adults to protect our children, educate them, help them: no nurses, no psychologists, no supervisors in sufficient numbers .
Violence is to despise children and parents by hiring untrained people in 30 minutes
, ”they chant in chorus.
Judged for “violence in meetings”
Index point "
frozen for years
", purchasing power "
at half mast
", "
National Education is in free fall but Jean-Michel Blanquer has his parachute for the legislative elections in Montargis
", criticize the teachers, who denounce the candidacy of the former minister in their constituency as much as his record at the ministry.
They add that they want to detail in a future video "
their conditions of arrest and their 8 hours of police custody
".
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The two fifties will appear on July 4 at 9:00 a.m. at the Montargis court for an appearance hearing on prior admission of guilt, or plead guilty.
They will have to answer for "
violence in a meeting that did not result in total incapacity for work
", an offense for which the penalty incurred is three years' imprisonment.