Reactions, analysis of the situation, proposed solutions … The political class is divided this Friday, April 25, after a student of a private high school in Nantes stabbed four people the previous day, killing one and hurting the other three, before being dominated by the teaching and arrested staff.
The difference is to play first in the choice of words. While sending their “emotional thoughts to families, high school students and the entire educational community whose nation shares shock and pain,” Emmanuel Macron greets the “teachers” whose intervention “undoubtedly avoided other dramas.”
In the same way, former Prime Minister Gabriel Attal shares his “thoughts” to the injured, “their loved ones, their teachers” and also says “infinite recognition for the courage of the staff.”
Bruno Retailleau talks about a “company fact”
The left reacts to the same tone, as the socialist mayor of Nantes, Johanna Rolland, who greets “the response capacity of security and rescue forces” and appreciates “the educational community” at the end of this drama. “This city is disconsolate. The policy is at another time,” insists the councilor.
But this distance is not always in order. Prime Minister François Bayrou begins a little more, talking about a “drama that once again illustrates the endemic violence that exists in a part of our youth.”
Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau, currently in the campaign for the presidency of the Les Républicins party, goes further. Arriving in Nantes on Thursday at the end of this attack, in the presence of his colleague to national education, Elisabeth, Borne, the head of the place that Beauvau speaks again of “Sevia”, a term regularly used by the extreme right.
Above all, the former head of the Senators of LR accelerates to evoke a “company fact”. “We are in a society that encouraged laxity, which wanted to deconstruct prohibitions, authority, order, hierarchy and that finally gave birth to all this violence,” deplora.
“The moment is not in politics”
Speech similar to national rally. Leader of the distant part, Marine Le Pen speaks of a “trivialization of ultraviolence.”
Front, Johanna Rolland says that “the moment is not in politics.” “I say it because I saw national officials who have not set foot here”, but “tweeted from Paris” and “instrumentalized” these events, addresses the socialist.
The next day, the mayor of PS de Rouen, Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, also laments France 2 a certain recovery and questions: “Do we know the reasons that led to this drama at a time when we talk? The answer is no.”
“Bruno Retailleau behaves a bit like a vulture” in “a moment of national unity,” supports a few minutes later, the rebel Mep Manon Aubry in the France’s information microphone.
The divisions persist regarding the responses to provide. François Bayrou supplicates “an intensification of controls around and within schools.” The Head of Government also believes that the installation of porch at the entrance of schools is “a track” to avoid new attacks against the knife in schools.
The question of the porches
The hypothesis is acclaimed by the right and its extreme. “Already in 2015, I proposed that we installed the security porches in the secondary schools to fight in particular against the intrusions of weapons,” said Laurent Wauquiez, former president of the Auverne-Rhône-Alpes region.
The mayor of Niza Christian Etrosi – former LR now a member of the Édouard Philippe party, Horizons – supports: “We have proposed experiments – security portas, facial recognition – in secondary schools. They were denied. It is time to review these decisions and act firmly to protect our children.”
The same tone with his rival Alpes-Maritimes Éric Ciotti, leader of UDR deputies. The former president of LR, now allied with the RN, believes that “the safety of schools must be absolute.” “Security gantrías, video protection with facial recognition, nothing must be prohibited,” he said.
“We have to put the porches. Now you have to leave,” he also supports Deputy Rn Sébastien Chenu in RTL, breaking the argument of their uselessness by emphasizing that they are present “in some countries.”
Mental health
In front, the left regrets a safe “breed”, like Manon Aubry.
“It costs 100,000 euros per school. There are 12,000 schools in our country, so it quickly makes the calculation. Without counting that, in terms of efficiency, we will ask children to come an hour earlier at school that can queue, so there will be crowds in front of educational establishments, which can be the goal of a little unbalanced,” deplies the rebellions.
Another problem stands out: that of mental health, the suspect was admitted to psychology due to the incompatibility of his health status with a measure of police custody.
Mental health is “taboo subject”, of which “we are not talking enough,” according to Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol.
“Behind the knives, you have to see the children,” added environmentalist Sandrine Rousseau, interviewed by Sud Radio this Friday and co -author at the end of 2024 of an information report “on the management of psychiatric emergencies.”
“It is not entertainment. It’s just that children are not doing well,” added the chosen Parisian official, evoking the impact of “intra -family” violence “,” social networks “, as well as” fear (young), either ecological or geopolitical. “
In addition to the late high school student, three other students were injured with a knife on Thursday at the Lycée Notre-Dame-De-Toutes-Ades in Nantes, one of which was between life and death on Thursday night. The most seriously injured younger health status “improved,” said Nantes prosecutor on Friday, Antoine Leroy.
The magistrate must give a press conference at 6 PM to take stock of the research and motivations of the aggressor, still undetermined.
Source: BFM TV
