Anne Genetet, the Minister of Education, is holding a meeting focused on security following shots fired at a middle school in Marseille. The new Minister of National Education, Anne Genetet, is holding a meeting on Thursday morning on “securing schools,” the ministry announced, after a middle school in Marseille was riddled with pellet shots on Tuesday. Genetet and her delegate minister in charge of school success and vocational education, Alexandre Portier, are canceling their first planned trip on Thursday morning to Seine-et-Marne. They will hold a meeting at the ministry with all central administration directors – responsible for implementing government directives, following the “unacceptable acts committed at Stéphane-Mallarmé College in Marseille,” the ministry stated.
The minister will “meet with the principal of the college, representatives of teachers, and parents of students,” the same source revealed. “More than eighty pellet impacts on the classroom windows of Stéphane-Mallarmé College in Marseille, completely unacceptable acts,” the minister denounced on X Wednesday evening, expressing her “full support for the educational community, parents, and students.” “I want to be very clear: we do not teach in fear and we do not learn with fear in our hearts,” she added, emphasizing that “everything is being done to find the perpetrators of these unacceptable acts.” “They must be severely punished. School must be protected from intimidation, brutality, and violence: no one should be afraid to go there,” she continued.
The member of La France Insoumise, Manuel Bompard, elected in Marseille but in a different district than the college, asked the government to reinstate “local police forces (…) we know that it works” during an interview with RTL on Thursday morning.
