Five days after the evacuation by the police of Sciences Po Paris students mobilized to denounce the situation in Gaza and while the mobilization extends to French universities, the question continues to agitate the political Landerneau. The Minister of Higher Education Sylvie Retailleau was questioned several times during questions to the government.
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“ The debate is yes, and the blockage will always be no. » Sylvie Retailleau hammers it home: the government French will remain inflexible in the face of student mobilizations. Any blockage will result in evacuation, any slippage in legal proceedings. An absolute necessity, according to presidential camp MP Violette Spillebout: “ It is also the role of the public authorities, the government in place, the heads of establishments, to be respected. »
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The movement is gaining momentum
Except that this message of firmness is difficult to be heard. The movement is gaining momentum: ten Sciences Po in France are now mobilized, eight universities, proof of a failing strategy, according to the president of the environmental group Cyrielle Chatelain: “ The way in which it was managed [la mobilisation] by the government, to discredit, to accuse… but of course it was going to mobilize other students all over France. »
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And even make the situation worse, according to Insoumis MP Hadrien Clouet: “ But of course, they are provocateurs. When you have Violette Spillebout who explains that we must put pressure on the university to ban youth meetings, when you have deputies who say that we must dissolve student associations, all this aims to add fuel to fire. »
A centrist political advisor prefers to smile: “ The truth, according to him, This controversy allows us to highlight those who are in difficulty in the European campaign: the presidential camp and the rebels. »