Boyard (LFI) calls for a parliamentary commission of inquiry

2023-06-14 11:02:00

Lhe LFI deputy Louis Boyard announced on Wednesday that he was going to ask for the creation of a parliamentary commission of inquiry into the presence of asbestos in, according to him, “eight out of ten classes”, denouncing a “health bomb” and the ” criminal passivity” of the government.

“Asbestos, when you breathe it, a single fiber is enough, you can catch different cancers”, observed the very young deputy on BFMTV-RMC, recalling that schools were “built in the 60s and 70s with asbestos which was banned in 97”. Establishments today “collapse in on themselves”.

“The minister is in a criminal passivity”, he added in reference to the end of inadmissibility opposed the day before by the Minister of Education Pap Ndiaye during questions to the government. The latter assured that it was an “important question of public health which we are seizing”, referring Louis Boyard to his “demagoguery”.

The deputy bases his alert on a survey published Monday, carried out on a sample of some 20,000 schools and carried out on behalf of the program “Vert de rage” (on France5). It shows that 28.4% of the 19,331 French schools studied contained asbestos. France has 48,580 establishments (nursery and elementary).

“The truth is that at all levels, they are saying + it costs too much +”, lamented Louis Boyard, citing the cost estimated by the unions at “4 to 5 billion euros per year for ten years”. “We need to know things concretely”, he added, asking “the President of the National Assembly to accept the request for a commission of inquiry”, under penalty of making herself guilty of “criminal passivity”.

To finance this renovation program, he proposed the abolition of the universal national service (SNU) and the reinstatement of the wealth tax.

The commission of inquiry that he wishes to create “in a transpartisan manner” would in particular aim to “organize samples in all schools that are asbestos”, by means of a wipe rather than a pump, inefficient according to him . Detection using a wipe has not yet been approved in France. It would then be a question of creating a “public fund for the renovation” of schools.

14/06/2023 11:00:50 – Paris (AFP) – © 2023 AFP