Despicable drawings mocking the death of George Floyd, whose vaporous soul escaping from his inert body would have finally allowed him to become white.
Equally odious remarks, presenting Hitler as a “sensible man”.
The management of the Centrale Lille school seized the prosecution after the discovery of racist remarks and images in a private discussion group of some of its students, said the engineering school, confirming information from Konbini News.
The management explains that it was alerted by students before the end of the year holidays of the existence of a “private” discussion group on Facebook Messenger, on which racist remarks were published.
Students from the Ecole Centrale de Lille exchanged anti-Semitic and racist comments about a group called “CentRacisme”.
Amara has had access to the messages and makes the decision to make them public.
He wants to raise the awareness of the Grandes Ecoles and their students on this subject.
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She said she reported to the public prosecutor on December 22 and launched disciplinary proceedings against the students concerned.
Sanctions can range from a warning to permanent exclusion from any public institution of higher education.
Certain remarks made on this group, entitled "CentRacisme", had been made public by a second-year student of the engineering school, Amara, a fortnight ago on Instagram.
“I feel insulted”
"I invite you to let the whole of France know that in large schools like the Ecole Centrale de Lille there is pure racism", denounces the young man in a video on the social network.
He explains there “having come across this secret conversation of around thirty students from his school”, first-year students.
“I feel insulted”, “the black community is considered inferior and the fact that we are present in the school and that they continue to laugh at this in our presence is even more insulting”, he confides. , deploring the “feeling of impunity” of these students.
The Grande Ecole, each promotion of which has around 300 students, assures in a message on its Facebook page "to condemn in the strongest terms the use of racist remarks by students".
