2023-06-16 15:50:59
The Minister of National Education, Pap Ndiaye, reacted on Friday, June 16, to the message of Christian Estrosi, the mayor of Nice, who had denounced the day before “muslim prayers” et “a minute of silence for Muhammad” which took place in the playground of three schools in his city.
The Minister of National Education deplored “intolerable facts” and assured to have “immediately mobilized the”Republic values teams” ». In a joint statement with Mr. Estrosihe points out that a high school and a college in the Alpes-Maritimes are also concerned by “very serious attacks on the principle of secularism”.
The mayor of Nice had communicated Thursday, explaining that the academic inspector of his city had informed him the day before “several extremely serious facts that occurred in different establishments” schools in Nice. In a letter to Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne, that he broadcast on Twitter, he evokes “children in CM1 and CM2 who said the Muslim prayer in the courtyard of their establishment or organized a minute of silence in memory of the Prophet Muhammad in their school”.
“No link established between cases”
The rector of the Nice Academy confirmed to Nice morning that five establishments are concerned, “including three elementary schools in Nice”. “It’s a first in the academy to have elementary schools”especially as it concerns « the most serious facts, in particular because of the age of the children”comments Natacha Chicot.
The rector detailed the facts to the regional newspaper. She evokes a “call for a minute of silence in memory of the prophet at the meridian break”launched by a CM1-CM2 student in a Nice school on June 8. “A report for radicalization has been made”écrit Nice morning.
The newspaper mentions two other facts reported in two separate schools: prayers, always at lunch break, performed by a group of ten children in one case, three in the other. The facts took place on May 16 and June 5. “There is no established link between the cases”underlined Mr.me Chicot, who says he informed Mr. Estrosi “because the facts were serious enough and the reports had been made by municipal staff”.
THE “Parents were summoned and, to my knowledge, understood that we do not have the right to pray in a school”, declared Pap Ndiaye Friday evening on the antenna of BFM-TV. He assured that it is with “firmness, discernment and pedagogy that we will advance and progress to significantly reduce (…) the acts of attack on secularism”.
In his letter to Elisabeth Borne, Christian Estrosi denounced “attempts to intrude religion into the sanctuaries of the Republic that are our schools”. “Our response must be firm, collective and resolute”, he added. In a separate press release, the mayor of Nice said he had requested “the head of government for a major awareness campaign on the phenomenon of radicalization to be launched in schools, to better protect children and train our staff”.
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“At the national level, additional measures will be concerted with the associations of local elected officials from the next instance of dialogue with the local authorities which will be held on July 3”promised Mr. Ndiaye.
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