Tribute to the professor killed in Arras: “I cannot tolerate any dispute or provocation” assures Gabriel Attal

The Minister of Nationwide Training Gabriel Attal assured Sunday night on TF1 that he would “not tolerate any protest, any provocation” throughout the tribute deliberate for Monday in colleges in reminiscence of the instructor killed Friday in an Islamist assault in Arras. “There might be a nominative report of all protests and all provocations,” insisted Mr. Attal, promising “disciplinary sanctions and systematic referral to the general public prosecutor to provoke proceedings.”

Safety might be strengthened round all colleges

Monday morning, from 8 a.m., academics will have the ability to meet of their institution throughout a time reserved for them, to replicate and pay tribute to Dominique Bernard, professor stabbed to dying by a radicalized younger man in Arras. The scholars is not going to arrive till 10 a.m. and, after a time of debate with the academics, will observe a minute of silence at 2 p.m. in every class of faculties, schools and excessive colleges, similar to the civil servants of all of the companies of the Nationwide Training Administration.

On Monday, academics and college students may also have a thought for Samuel Paty, a historical past and geography instructor beheaded by a radicalized younger individual simply three years in the past. Through the tributes paid to the latter in 2020, as to the victims of Charlie Hebdo in January 2015, “there have been protests or provocations”, recalled the minister, whereas emphasizing that these protests had been ” minority”.

The Minister of Training, Gabriel Attal, who requested the strengthening of safety round all colleges, schools and excessive colleges, additionally introduced the deployment of 1,000 safety personnel from the ministry in academic institutions. Regarding the safety of those college buildings, the minister introduced that he would deliver collectively “subsequent week (…) all native authorities” to debate “with out taboo”. “There are many avenues, options which might be on the desk,” he continued, referring to “gates”, “institutions the place there are extra safety guards, others which use video surveillance”.

“The college has been hit laborious” however stays “standing”, underlined Gabriel Attal earlier, insisting: “The college is not going to permit itself to be terrorized”.