French President Emmanuel Macron referred this Monday to the murder of Samuel Paty to explain the context of the government’s decision to ban the abaya in schools. A measure announced last week by the Minister of Education and rising star of Macronism, Gabriel Attalin an interview with the French channel TF1.
“We also live in our society with a minority, people who, hijacking a religion, come to challenge the Republic and secularism,” said the tenant of the Elysée in an interview broadcast live this Monday on the YouTuber’s channel. HugoDecryptewho asked him to return to this issue of the abaya in schools, which has caused an avalanche of reactions internationally.
Macron expressed on Friday during a visit to a vocational training center in Orange that religious symbols have no place in classes, “whatever they may be.”
“Sometimes it has led to the worst. We cannot pretend that the terrorist attack and the murder of Samuel Paty did not happen in our country»responded during the live on YouTube in reference to the teacher from Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, who was murdered on October 16, 2020, a few days after showing his students caricatures of Muhammad as part of a lesson on freedom of expression.
“I’m just saying: this system is there,” Macron continued. “It happened because a teacher was learning about secularism in his class and then there was this frenzy with social media and people who then did the worst.”
Questioned by his statements, the French president qualified that he was not drawing “any parallels” between acts of terrorism and the clothes worn by young Muslim women. “I’m just telling you that the issue of secularism in our schools is deep,” she concluded in response to criticism.
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