Luca Barbagli, Fiona Idda and Rémy Perrad are national delegates of the UNI student union.
“Students, block all universities in the country!”
launched, on February 7, from the National Assembly the deputy LFI, Louis Boyard.
For him, this is the apotheosis, the culmination of a tour of universities where for months he has been vociferating, haranguing, yelling, thus hoping to inflame part of the youth to enlist them behind his "
lider maximo
», Jean-Luc Melenchon.
Since September, he has abandoned his constituency and the Assembly to haunt the corridors and amphitheatres of universities.
In Strasbourg, as early as October, he declared:
“for the pension reform, I ask you, you block the university and you take a picture with a Nupes deputy in a tricolor scarf!”
In Rennes-2, a few days ago, on February 6, in front of an AG in which the opponents of the blockages did not have the right to enter, he renewed this call.
The next day, burning barricades prevented anyone from approaching the establishment, disregarding the safety of students and residents.
Here, the majority of students are deprived of lessons, Louis Boyard can return to Paris, he is happy!
He probably imagines following in the footsteps of Jean-Paul Sartre in front of the Renault workers, or of Daniel Cohn-Bendit on the Place de la Sorbonne.
But how far are we from it!
From the Hanouna sets to the Assembly, passing through university lecture halls, he is just an agitator who likes to stage himself and confuses politics with reality TV.
Left-wing political parties have always tried to instrumentalize youth.
They had even conceptualized the “tube of toothpaste” theory: College and high school students, they claimed, are like toothpaste;
when they come out of the tube, you can't get them back in.
With each reform, when the left and the unions were struggling,
there was always a "black baron" to try to manipulate high school and student organizations into pushing them into the streets.
We remember the very close ties between Julien Dray and the high school students of the FIDL, or those of Benoît Hamon with the Unef.
The strings were already big, but when you compare them to the methods used by Louis Boyard, they seem so subtle.
We are not the victims of a system that seeks to
“starve”
us and
“drown”
us to use his terms, we are convinced that we can build our future through work.
Luca Barbagli, Fiona Idda, Remy Perrad
To achieve his ends and "mess up" the country, the rebellious deputy does not hesitate to sacrifice our freedom to study, but also that of personal work.
By thus calling for blocking, he makes himself, in fact, an accomplice by provocation of a criminal offense defined by article 431-1 paragraph 3 of the Criminal Code as the fact of hindering in a concerted manner the exercise of teacher function.
This offense is punishable by one year's imprisonment and a fine of 15,000 euros.
It is true that being illegal has never scared the man who, according to his own admissions, was dealing in his youth.
Blockages have always been a disaster.
This disrupts our courses, harms our training, forces postponements of exams which,
de facto
, prevents some of us from carrying out the internships for which they were selected... The image of our universities suffers from it.
We remember the rebellion of foreign students, especially Anglo-Saxons, who felt held hostage during the mobilization against the CPE.
They had had the impression, rightly, of wasting a year.
But this year, it would be even more serious!
After the health crisis and confinement, blocking the faculties means ruining our studies, our training and our diplomas.
It also means forgetting that some of the students have been psychologically weakened by the
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As for the cost of blockages and subsequent damage, each time it amounts to several million euros.
The restoration of buildings is necessarily done at the expense of investments that would be more useful for students.
Finally, if blockages damage the image of universities, it must be admitted that Louis Boyard, he is downright harmful to the image of youth and students.
He may have proclaimed himself its spokesperson, but the vast majority of students, and that's a good thing, are nothing like him.
We ask only to be able to study freely, without hindrance, because we aspire to success, in our exams today and in our professional life tomorrow.
We are not the victims of a system that would seek to
"starve"
us and
"drown"
us to use his terms, we are convinced on the contrary that we can build our future through our work and our attendance at classes... we still have to -he let them be dispensed.
The freedom to study must be guaranteed!