The controversy triggered by the new Minister of National Education continues to grow. While Amélie Oudéa-Castéra went to the Littré public school on Tuesday – from where she had removed her eldest son to put him in the private sector – in order to apologize to the teachers of the establishment, the Union National Education Public Agents (SNAPEN) filed a complaint in Paris.
This defamation complaint, consulted by AFP, was filed before the Court of Justice of the Republic (CJR). It targets the comments made on Friday by the minister to explain the schooling of her three sons in a prestigious private Parisian establishment. In particular his statements about his “frustration” with “lots of hours which were not seriously replaced”.
Discredited reputation
This complaint “aims to sanction these comments which affect the reputation of agents by discrediting public education and, more generally, to impose the respect owed by the highest administrations to the latter”, commented Gérard Lenfant, president of SNAPEN.
This union presents itself as “apolitical”, open to “all staff of the Ministry of National Education present on the ground in the academies of Toulouse and Montpellier”.
Complaints addressed to the CJR are filtered by a complaints commission, which can classify them or transmit them to an investigating commission. At the end of the investigation, this commission declares a dismissal of the case or a referral for trial.