National Education has counted 627 reports for attacks on secularism from December 2021 to March 2022 in schools, colleges and high schools, announced the Minister of National Education, Pap Ndiaye in an interview with
Parisian
, Saturday.
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These figures are "
generally stable
" compared to the first three months of the 2021-2022 school year (-9) but the share of religious outfits in the total attacks on secularism has increased and these outfits represent 22% of the total. reports, explained the minister.
These have been controversial in recent weeks in the media, and have been banned since the 2004 law on conspicuous religious signs.
“
It is linked to the phenomenon of abayas (traditional black dress worn by certain young Muslim girls).
I decided to have a monthly assessment from September rather than quarterly, to have less expectation on these figures
, "explained the tenant in rue de Grenelle who had been suspected in particular on the right and on the left. far-right, to hide this data.
According to figures from the Ministry of National Education of which AFP was aware, the report for wearing signs and outfits recorded an increase of seven points with 139 cases identified, suspicions of proselytism by six points.
Verbal provocations, on the other hand, fell by eight points.
"A teacher in front of each class at the start of the school year"
A total of 321 requests for advice made by school or establishment management to the “
Values of the Republic
” academic teams were identified, an increase of 10% compared to the previous quarter.
The reports for this school year 2021-2022 have however been on a high plateau since the peak observed in the fall of 2020 at the time of the assassination of Professor Samuel Paty by a jihadist (1332 cases).
Between the period December 2020-March 2021 and December 2021-March 2022, the number of reported cases thus increased by 14.6%.
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In the interview with
Parisian
, Pap Ndiaye also promised “
a teacher in front of each class at the start of the school year
” despite the recruitment problems facing the National Education.