Unions criticise Prime Minister Lecornu over violence at upper secondary schools
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on BFMTV
Education unions on Friday 13 November criticised remarks by Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu suggesting that staff may have been complicit in violence around upper secondary schools. For the Snes-FSU, the statement is a provocation likely to fuel tensions, according to BFMTV.
Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu said on Thursday 12 November that some upper secondary schools were the subject of logistical organisation to transport firework mortars, with, in his view, the complicity of people inside those establishments. Education unions criticised these remarks on Friday 13 November, saying they were likely to fuel tensions.
Sophie Vénétitay, general secretary of the Snes-FSU, whose union is the leading one in secondary education, described the statements as a provocation in an already critical situation. She recalled that procedures exist if staff are involved, and that this point remains to be proven. She asked why staff were being “pointed at” in front of public opinion, if not to harden the government’s response.
Bruno Bobkiewicz, general secretary of the SPDEN-Unsa, the leading union of school principals, considers that these statements do not help end the crisis. Jean-Rémi Girard, president of the Snalc, criticises the Prime Minister for making accusations without evidence or concrete elements. Elisabeth Allain-Moreno, general secretary of the SE-Unsa, denounces a public accusation aimed at all staff, the basis of which she does not know.
