The case has aroused the excitement of several local elected officials. During an event organized on November 11 in Grenoble, CE2 students from a public school gave a speech about the war, referring incidentally to “police violence”, “institutional violence” such as “the use of 49.3” or the movement of the yellow vests
Questioned in the columns of Dauphine Liberé, the Renaissance councilor Émilie Chalas was skeptical, pointing out a “very politicized discourse”. According to her, it was “written by adults.”
“The children are not in doubt, it was obvious that they had worked well on their diction, their intonations. When they talked about the climate emergency, it was even very moving. But who are we going to believe? old man wants to talk about 49-3?”
“Some messages were strong and sincere, but others were clearly not those of the children”, abounds Stéphane Gemmani, always in the freed dolphin. For the regional councilor of the Socialist, Ecologist and Democrat group, “it was neither the place nor the place.”
Élisa Martin, the new La France insoumise (LFI) deputy for Isère and winner in the second round of the last legislative elections against Émilie Chalas, tells another story. On her Twitter account, she praised the 10-year-old schoolchildren “for their moving speech and so lucid.”
An instruction opened by the rectorate
Faced with the controversy, the City Council, whose mayor has been the environmentalist Éric Piolle since 2014, has denied having any responsibility in this matter. Indicates, we can read in the freed dolphin, which “was not consulted upstream about the participation of the students of the Bajatière school”. And then specify that “as every year, the organization of November 11 was in charge of the prefecture.”
For its part, the rectory obtained the speech delivered last Friday, opened an investigation and will receive those involved in the coming days.
“If the duty of neutrality is not respected, then there can be a sanction,” explains Patrick Gros, academic director of the national education services in Isère.
Two schoolgirls assured Europe 1 that adults were not at the origin of their text. “Our lady gave us the bases, and from there we invented speech,” explains one of them on the radio. “Secondary students helped us a little to find, but for the rest it’s the children and a little bit the teacher”, confirms the second.
Source: BFM TV
