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The date is sadly symbolic. Three years to the day after the assassination of Samuel Paty, France, still in shock from the Islamist attack in Arras, paid tribute this Monday to Dominique Bernard, with a minute of silence at school. After the murder on Friday of this French teacher, stabbed to death in front of his establishment by a former student on file S, teachers will be able to meet from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. in their middle and high schools for a time of exchange, “at the same time human and educational”. This day will also be dedicated to the memory of Samuel Paty, beheaded on October 16, 2020 by a radicalized young person after showing caricatures of Mohammed in class. Sunday on TF1, the Minister of Education Gabriel Attal insisted that he would “not tolerate any protest, any provocation” during this tribute. Against a backdrop of reinforced security in the face of the terrorist threat, Emmanuel Macron for his part asked his ministers to embody “a ruthless State” towards the bearers of “hate”.
The executive will try this Monday to reconnect with the social partners by tackling the very heavy issue of purchasing power, in a context of high inflation. Elisabeth Borne is therefore organizing a social conference between the government, unions and employers on the thorny issue of low wages. For this meeting, the Prime Minister took care to take care of the preparations. Last week, she met almost all the unions (the CFDT, the CGT, FO, the CFE-CGC, the CFTC and the Unsa), still marked by the forceps adoption of the pension reform, and the main employers’ organizations: Medef, CPME, U2P, FNSEA, Fesac and Udes.
Since October 7, the war between Israel and Hamas has led to fears of the worst. The international community fears that the conflict will set the region ablaze. By calling on the terrorist organization on Sunday to release all the hostages and Israel to authorize the entry of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip, the UN Secretary General warned that the Middle East was “on the verge of collapse.” the abyss.” American Secretary of State Antony Blinken is due to return to Israel this Monday, for a second visit in a week, after a tour of several Arab countries. In Cairo, he notably assured that the Arab allies of the United States did not want the conflict to spill over. Asked on Sunday in the program “60 Minutes” on the American channel CBS about his possible support for an occupation of Gaza by Israel, Joe Biden was also very clear: “I think it would be a serious mistake”