The Minister of Education Gabriel Attal announced Thursday “working on measures” which will make it possible to “extract” radicalized students from schools, with his colleagues from Justice and the Interior, a week after the attack which cost the life of a teacher in Arras.
“I will work with my colleague from the Interior and my colleague from Justice on measures that will allow us to remove them from our schools,” he said on France 2.
Attal defends a “principle of protection”
When education personnel “report students who, according to them, potentially constitute a threat (…) because of comments they have made or acts they have committed, the principle of protection that I want to apply to all of our students and staff mean that we must find another solution than sending them to school,” he declared.
“We must think of specialized structures that can accommodate them” and “I will take all precautionary exclusion measures” necessary, added the minister.
A thousand “potentially radicalized” minors?
Gabriel Attal said he “deeply believes in the role of education in reducing radicalization”, but “in certain situations, the level of recruitment in the family, and sometimes of associations which revolve around it, is such that we cannot does not fight on equal terms.
A little earlier in the evening, Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin spoke on BFMTV of “more than 1,000 minors with active forms for Islamism”. “There are around a thousand minors who are monitored” but some are because a member of their family is particularly monitored, said Gabriel Attal. “We are in the process of evaluating” the number of potentially radicalized minors, added the minister, estimating this number at “probably several dozen”.