2024-01-17 21:51:13
The entrance to the college of the Stanislas private establishment, in Paris, January 17, 2024. THOMAS SAMSON / AFP
The City of Paris decided, Wednesday January 17, to suspend the payment of subsidies to the Stanislas school, which is part of private Catholic education. The municipality added, in a press release, that this decision was taken “as a precautionary measure, pending clarifications required from the State”.
This decision follows the publication Tuesday evening par Mediapart of an investigation report from a mission carried out by the inspectors general which denounces a “drift” and “intolerable speeches” on homosexuality and the compulsory nature of catechism in the college of the establishment located in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, where the three sons of the Minister of National Education, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, are educated.
The Stanislas private school will be the subject of a « plan d’action » followed with « rigueur », promised the Minister of Education on Wednesday, but the management of the establishment and the diocese of Paris judge that this document does not validate the serious criticisms relayed in the media. The report “was ordered in February 2023, and completed at the beginning of August 2023. And immediately Gabriel Attal asked the rectorate and the general inspection to follow an action plan which takes almost fifteen measures”declared Amélie Oudéa-Castéra on France 2. This plan “will be followed with all necessary rigor”added the minister.
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“I would like to point out that this report does not reveal any acts of homophobia or any cases of harassment. The only case of homophobia was reported to the prosecutor via the article 40 procedure.said the minister, accused of having denigrated public education to justify the transfer of her eldest son to Stanislas.
In a new article published Wednesday evening, Mediapart describes, with supporting recording, other cases of homophobic remarks and behavior in the establishment.
Report to the Paris prosecutor
The director of the Stanislas school, Frédéric Gautier, ” surprised “ of the publication of this report and affirms that the inspectors “do not confirm the facts of homophobia, sexism and authoritarianism highlighted by the press articles”in a press release published Tuesday. “We take note of the fourteen recommendations of the report”he added, however.
These “must be the subject of in-depth work with the Paris rectorate”, he said in a second press release on Wednesday. The establishment has “internally started working” on those which depend on its ” responsibility “.
For its part, the diocesan management of Catholic education in Paris considered that“with the exception of a single case” Who “has been processed by terminating the functions of the person concerned” he has not “no possible sanctions have been reported in [les] exchanges with the administration » in “serious irregularity”. ” The mission [d’inspection] told us that he could not confirm the accusations which had motivated this investigation”affirms the diocesan leadership.
Senators Ian Brossat and Pierre Ouzoulias (French Communist Party) for their part announced “seize justice alongside SOS Homophobia” in view of the conclusions of the report. They claim to perform “a report to the Paris prosecutor under article 40 of the code of criminal procedure” and enter “through a lawyer, the prefect of Paris to request the deconvention of the high school”.
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The City of Paris has paid, for the 2022-2023 school year, for the nursery and elementary schools and the secondary school of the Stanislas establishment an amount of 1,373,905 euros, corresponding to the 483 students enrolled in nursery and elementary schools , and to the 1,329 middle school students, within the framework of the rules on the financing of private establishments under contract by communities. Contacted by Agence France-Presse, Paris City Hall declares that it will be suspended “payment of upcoming installments” to the establishment for the current year, without going into detail. In total, the school welcomes 3,500 students from nursery to preparatory classes.
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