The PS asks the region to act – Liberation
The Bétharram affair sparked a #MeToo of Catho education in France. Friday April 18, Liberty It was relay by evoking repeated sexual assaults inflicted in a private establishment in the Lyon suburbs By a former French teacher, who died in 2002. All of this takes a political turn.
On Wednesday, the PS group at the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes regional council published a press release to call on the region to react to « Systemic childhood protection failures in certain schools under contract ».
The group chaired by Najat Vallaud-Belkacem thus requests the implementation of a « Independent regional commission for evaluation to identify the establishments under contract which has been the subject of reports or surveys for acts of sexual assault ». And the roses to call the region, on which high schools depend, to play « Fully its role as a guarantee of student safety ».
On the majority side, we moderately appreciated this exit from the socialists and their heads, incidentally former Minister of National Education. In a reaction transmitted to Lyon Mag,, The entourage of the President LR of the region, Fabrice Pannekoucke, qualifies all this as« Amateurism ». “The supervision of students and the prevention of violence in particular sexual fall under national education, we believe. Faced with particularly serious and odious acts which should bring together the national community, the socialist elected officials get over indignantly. ”
