If since Tuesday the political comments focus, on the left as on the right, on the death of the young Nahel, killed by a policeman in Nanterre, the intervention of Yaël Braun-Pivet on LCP Wednesday evening did not go unnoticed among the deputies of Nupes.
Invited on the parliamentary channel on the occasion of the first anniversary of her election to the perch, the President of the National Assembly declared: “I want a perfectly secular public school, where there is no Ramadan, no of abayas, no conspicuous religious signs”. The Renaissance MP for Yvelines says she is “very worried” following a trip to Pas-de-Calais during which elected officials told her that “in the month of Ramadan, there were parents who asked in schools primary that the children do not go to the canteen and that we take care of their supervision”. And to continue: “I don’t want this France”.
The rebellious leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon quickly reacted on Twitter: “And the Concordat?”, he launched before declaring “Islamophy makes you crazy!” and to challenge the President of the Assembly: “Today is Eid. Is it forbidden ma’am?” The first secretary of the Socialist Party, Olivier Faure, meanwhile said he was shocked by “such enormity” on the part of Yaël Braun-Pivet, accusing the presidential party of “doubling” the far right, “to strength to run behind. Manuel Bompard, the coordinator of La France Insoumise, went one better by saying that “even the National Rally had not thought of it”, advancing the hypothesis of a law carried by Renaissance “to ban Ramadan at school”. Without explicitly mentioning this eventuality, the President of the Assembly nevertheless indicated that, “if it was necessary to make a law” to recall the principle of secularism in public schools, she “would not hesitate to vote for a such law”.