Gabriel Attal on TF1’s 8pm show on 27 March. He defended secularism and said the state would be filing a complaint against the pupil involved in the head scarf row.Gabriel Attal on TF1’s 8pm show on 27 March. He defended secularism and said the state would be filing a complaint against the pupil involved in the head scarf row.
authorities banned schoolchildren from wearing “signs or outfits by which students ostensibly show a religious affiliation” According to a letter sent by the school to teachers, pupils and parents, the principal stood down for “security reasons”, while education officials said he had taken “early retirement”.
“We can’t accept it,” Boris Vallaud, the head of the Socialist deputies in the National Assembly lower house, told television broadcasterMarion Maréchal, granddaughter of far-right patriarch Jean-Marie Le Pen and a far-right politician herself, spoke on Sud Radio of a “defeat of the state” in the face of “the Islamist gangrene”.
The Socialist mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, called the principal to “assure him of her total support and solidarity”, said her office, adding she was “appalled and dismayed”. In a further show of support, the education ministry said in a statement that it would never abandon teachers in the face of threats.