85 students permanently excluded from their establishment after incidents

A total of 605 sanctions were pronounced during disciplinary councils after the tributes paid to the two murdered teachers, according to the Ministry of National Education.

“We are indeed turning the page on ‘no waves’”, welcomed Gabriel Attal. A total of 605 sanctions, including 85 definitive exclusions, were pronounced during disciplinary councils after the incidents which punctuated the tributes, in October, to professors Dominique Bernard and Samuel Paty, announced Thursday, November 23, the Ministry of Defense. ‘National Education.

There were 454 exclusions in total: 85 permanent exclusions from the establishment, 322 temporary and 47 definitive suspended, added the ministry. A minute of silence was observed in middle and high schools to pay tribute to Dominique Bernard, killed in Arras (Pas-de-Calais) on October 13 in a jihadist attack, and to Samuel Paty, assassinated on October 16, 2020 in Conflans- Sainte-Honorine (Yvelines) by a radicalized young person.

“Don’t let anything pass”

For the most serious acts of protest or disruption, measures of removal from the establishment as a precautionary measure were decided on October 16, the date of the tribute. The disciplinary councils which followed decided on sanctions ranging from a warning or a reprimand (eight students) to permanent exclusion from the establishment.

“These sanctions are, first of all, a commitment kept. The one that I made before the French not to let anything pass, in the name of the memory of Dominique Bernard and Samuel Paty, and of the essential respect for ‘authority at school’, declared Minister Gabriel Attal, quoted in the press release.

The Minister of Education had already reported, on October 19,‘”a little over 500″ incidents notified by school leaders during the minute of silence. “Systematically, we contact the public prosecutor” And “we initiate disciplinary proceduressaid Gabriel Attal. In the most serious cases, I have asked school heads that these students be excluded as a precautionary measure, without waiting for the disciplinary council.”