“We cannot accept, in a school establishment, that there are acts of discrimination.
This is unacceptable, no matter what level of establishment we are talking about.
» Asked on franceinfo on Friday, the Minister of National Education Nicole Belloubet expressed her indignation after the controversy launched on Tuesday by a pro-Palestinian mobilization at Sciences-po Paris.
A 20-year-old young woman, member of the Union of Jewish Students of France (UEJF), was refused access to the amphitheater where this meeting took place.
Tuesday morning, around a hundred students occupied the main amphitheater of the Institute of Political Studies.
They were taking part in a “day of European university mobilization for Palestine”, which blocked the holding of a lecture.
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“I wanted to attend this conference open to the public.
As soon as I arrived at the door, masked organizers blocked me.
They told me: “You, you’re not coming back!”
» I asked them to explain.
They just told me: “We know you,” she confided in our columns.
Investigations launched
Nicole Belloubet thus announced that investigations had been launched.
“We cannot prohibit a student from entering an amphitheater.
The university is made to organize debates, but the debates must respect differences,” supported the Minister of National Education, before concluding: “The democratic principle must be respected in the major schools.
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Also questioned about the resignation of the director of Sciences-po Paris Mathias Vicherat, accused of domestic violence, Nicole Belloubet made a point of recalling that “the State can very well say what the mission of the director of (Sciences-Po) should be, but it is up to the board of directors to choose the new director.”