A total of 605 sanctions, including 85 permanent exclusions from the school, were pronounced during disciplinary councils after the incidents which punctuated the tributes to teachers Dominique Bernard killed in Arras and to Samuel Paty in mid-October, announced this Thursday, November 23, Minister of Education Gabriel Attal.
There were 454 exclusions in total: 85 permanent exclusions from the establishment, 322 temporary and 47 permanent suspended exclusions, added the Ministry of Education in a communication sent to AFP.
For the most serious acts of protest or disruption, measures of removal from the establishment as a precautionary measure were decided on October 16, the date of the tribute. The disciplinary councils which followed decided on sanctions ranging from a warning or a reprimand (eight students) to permanent exclusion from the establishment.
“Don’t let anything pass”
“These sanctions are, first of all, a commitment kept. The one that I made before the French not to let anything pass, in the name of the memory of Dominique Bernard and Samuel Paty, and of the essential respect for “authority at school”, declared Gabriel Attal, quoted in the press release. “Moreover, these unprecedented results in the past are proof that we are indeed turning the page on ‘No wave’,” he added.
The Minister of Education had already reported on October 19 “a little more than 500” incidents notified by school principals during the minute of silence observed in middle and high schools during the tribute to Dominique Bernard, killed in a jihadist attack in Arras (Pas-de-Calais) on October 13, and Samuel Paty, murdered on October 16, 2020 in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine (Yvelines) by a radicalized young person.