He did not miss the opportunity to publish his letter. Sunday evening, Gilles Pennelle released a copy of the letter he had sent to the president of Rennes 2 university two days earlier. The leader of the National Rally in Brittany is indignant that a general assembly was held within the walls of the faculty of human sciences in order to disrupt the arrival of Jordan Bardella. Three days after the famous GA, clashes broke out in Bruz near the meeting place of the presidential candidate of the far-right party. Demonstrators erected barricades and tried to approach the place of the public meeting, forcing the police to intervene. To the throwing of projectiles and mortars, the police and gendarmes responded with tear gas. A CRS was seriously hit in the ear by the explosion of a firework.
After this altercation and the start of the demonstrations, the public meeting of the RN was able to be held normally. A few hours later, Gilles Pennelle published a copy of his letter on Twitter to denounce the role of Rennes 2 University. His target? A meeting organized by the General Assembly Rennes 2 and the Antifascist General Assembly of Rennes which was held in a hall of the university on September 22. Reason for the meeting: “Against the arrival of Jordan Bardella in Rennes”. In their publication, the two groups claim to have “brought together several hundred people at the announcement of the Bardella meeting”. On Sunday, between 200 and 300 people gathered around the place of the RN meeting.
The university explains that it cannot “control everything that happens”
Holding this AG within the walls of the university did not please the boss of the Breton RN. “How can you justify that such a demonstration of incitement to hatred against an elected representative of the Republic, a European deputy elected by universal suffrage, could have taken place in a public building for which you are responsible? “, annoys Gilles Pennelle who believes that Christine Rivalan-Guégo must enforce “political neutrality” in his establishment.
Contacted by 20 minutes, the university did not wish to speak, explaining that it would respond to the letter from the regional adviser. The management briefly mentions the difficulty of “controlling everything that happens” in a university which welcomes more than 20,000 students. All the more so when the gathering is “undeclared”.