A new omerta in National Education?
The principal of the Maurice Ravel school campus in the twentieth arrondissement of Paris left his position on Friday March 22 after receiving numerous death threats on the internet for asking a student to remove her veil in February.
If the rectorate modestly mentions an
“early departure”
for retirement, the ex-headmaster for his part justified his withdrawal by evoking in an email sent to the internal messaging system his
“security”
and that of
the “establishment”
.
“
I finally made the decision to leave my duties as principal for safety for myself, and for the establishment
,” we can read in this message revealed by
l’Humanité
, and confirmed by
Le Figaro.
I am leaving after seven rich and intense years spent at your side, but also after 45 years in national education…”
.
The principal received death threats on social media.
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A few years after the death of Samuel Paty, beheaded by an Islamist terrorist after showing caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad in class, or five months after the assassination of Dominique Bernard, a French teacher in Arras also killed with a knife by a former student of its radicalized establishment, this departure provoked a warning shot within National Education.
“Small cowards and big renunciations”
If the rectorate tries to minimize the affair, many Internet users and several political figures of the French right have already reacted on social networks by castigating
“small cowardices and great renunciations”
, as Bruno Retailleau, president of the LR group in the Senate.
Before adding: “This is what “no wave” leads to
.
”
This expression, used on social networks by teachers who denounced violence in establishments and the lack of support from their hierarchy, appeared in October 2018, the day after the broadcast of a video showing a high school student from Créteil robbing in full files a weapon on his teacher.
Marine Le Pen, president of the National Rally, went further by considering that the
“government was incapable of protecting our schools”
.
“After the assassinations of S. Paty and D. Bernard by Islamists, a principal resigned under threat of death for having upheld secularism
,” she lamented.