A visit to Lyon by the Minister of Education was severely disrupted on Monday, Pap Ndiaye not finally going to 2:30 p.m. as planned at Inspe, where a hundred demonstrators were waiting for him, who tried to enter the building, noted a journalist from Agence France-Presse.
According to the Ministry of Education, which denies any “cancellation” of the visit, it was simply reorganized after these demonstrators forced an entry from the National Higher Institute of Teaching and Education (Inspe), in shouting “we too will pass in force”, an allusion to the 49.3 used to pass the unpopular pension reform. The police, present inside, prevented them from entering the building, firing tear gas.
The visit to the Teacher Training Institute “is not canceled, it is reversed”, the minister going first to the rectorate, then to Inspe, the ministry was told. During a tense microphone at the rectorate, Pap Ndiaye confirmed that he would then go to Inspe. The program of the visit communicated to the media did not initially mention a trip to the rectorate.
The announcement – ??only two hours before – of his trip had immediately prompted a call on the networks to welcome the minister to the heckling. The few hundred people who had gathered as a welcoming committee were equipped with pots, pans, buckets, tin boxes of biscuits, whistles, but also fog horns and smoke bombs, noted an AFP journalist .
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