2023-11-05 21:02:46
The Minister of Education Gabriel Attal, who has made the fight against school bullying one of his priorities, said this Sunday that he himself had suffered “a flood of insults and insults” at “the end of college.” “I was at the end of middle school, I was 14, 15 years old. It was a student of the establishment who had opened this site on which it was necessary to post comments on the physical appearance of the students,” explained the minister in the program Seven to Eight on TF1.
“And I, on this occasion, experienced a flood of insults and insults. It lasted several months and it was very violent,” he described. “The comments that were posted were ‘faggot, tafiole, tarlouse’, so I think it was about a supposed sexual orientation at the time since I didn’t talk about it around me,” continued the 34-year-old minister, who studied at the very posh École Alsacienne in Paris.
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“What was hard for me, but what is also hard today for many young people, is sometimes the feeling that we have no one to talk to about it,” he observed, saying having felt “pain”. “If I am so keen to get involved in school bullying, it is perhaps because the fact of having experienced insults has forged something,” insisted Gabriel Attal, who wants send the message that “there is an end to suffering”.
Since the summer, the government has announced a series of measures against bullying at school, including the possibility of changing schools for harassing students. According to Gabriel Attal, “several dozen (…) had to change establishments because they were harassing a friend”. The National Assembly, as part of the examination of National Education appropriations in the 2024 budget, adopted on Friday evening an amendment providing for the allocation of 30 million euros to the creation of anti-harassment brigades within academies.
Born to a father from a family of Jewish origin and a Russian Orthodox Christian mother, the minister also indicated on TF1 that he had received “letters, insults, messages on social networks” of an anti-Semitic nature, other threatening letters since the ban on the abaya and still being the target of homophobic attacks. He claims to have “really built a shell for all that”.
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