Three days after the announcement of the departure of the principal of a Parisian high school threatened with death after an altercation with a student to make her remove her veil, a rally is planned for Friday in front of the school campus. It is scheduled for 7:45 a.m., at the call of the Socialist Party, which invites students, parents and teachers: “following the resignation of the principal of the Maurice-Ravel school campus in the 20th arrondissement of Paris, the federation of Socialist Party of Paris affirms its full support for the principal and the educational community.
For its part, the main union of heads of establishments, SNPDEN-Unsa, will speak in the morning, for the first time since the start of the affair, during a press conference on the theme of “violations to secularism.” Management staff are “on the front line”, he recalls in the press invitation.
A departure “for security reasons”
The headmaster of Ravel high school had been the target of death threats on the networks since the altercation on February 28 with a student, attending BTS, whom he had asked to remove her veil. He announced this week that he was leaving his post, a few months before his retirement, “for security reasons” according to his establishment. An early departure which caused great excitement among teachers and within the political class.
Questioned Thursday evening on RTL, the Minister of Education Nicole Belloubet indicated that this principal “is not under police protection, but he has direct access to the police and judicial protection”. The day before, Prime Minister Gabriel Attal had announced that the State was going to file a complaint against the young woman for “slanderous denunciation”.
” The cup is full “
Agnès Andersen, general secretary of ID-FO, another union of school heads, denounced “a climate of pressure which is exerted in the form of threats, intimidation and sometimes violence, against school heads” . “The parents of students are increasingly aggressive, the sanctions are often contested, there are more and more appeals, and we have to cope, without sufficient human resources,” regretted Agnès Andersen to AFP. The cup is full, there is an emergency.”
For the Sgen-CFDT of the Paris Academy, a teaching union, the departure of the headmaster of the Ravel high school constitutes “a collective failure”: “The repetition of this type of scenario against a backdrop of instrumentalization of the relationship to religious beliefs is not not acceptable and can lead to tragedies. We know this only too well in national education after the assassination of Samuel Paty. »