Yaël Braun-Pivet focused by graffiti and hostile slogans from pro-Palestinian demonstrators at Lyon-III University | EUROtoday

The President (Renaissance) of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet, was focused, Friday, November 8, by graffiti and hostile slogans from pro-Palestinian activists against her coming to Lyon-III University, however finally exchanged in peace with college students.

“I suggested to these young people who didn’t want me to have a dialogue. They did not want it, they preferred violent action”she regretted on the finish of her go to, stressing that she needed “always favor dialogue”. “We are in a democracy, the President of the National Assembly that I am must be able to go anywhere in the territory (…) This is my role and I will never give up”she added.

“Yaël get out of there”, “Genocidal, outside our universities”, “Free Gaza” Or “Free Palestine” : a number of messages in massive letters had been sprayed in a single day close to the campus. Some had been shortly deleted.

Around 200 demonstrators continued on the identical register within the afternoon earlier than the arrival of the Macronist MP from Yvelines, chanting “Criminal Israel, Yaël complicit” Or “Yaël, get out of there, Lyon-III is not yours”.

“Fascist drift”

The Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau, denounced on “fascist drift of activists who exploit the tragedy experienced by the Palestinians”. “Total support for Yaël Braun-Pivet, whom far-left demonstrators with anti-Semitic ideas want to ban from accessing a university. The Republic is at home everywhere”he wrote once more.

His colleague from increased training, Patrick Hetzel, for his half condemned “with force the anti-Semitic insults uttered against Yaël Braun-Pivet and the unacceptable actions of groups of students occurring at Lyon-III”. “My firmness against anti-Semitism and any form of political exploitation of the university is total”he reacted on X.

In a brief press launch, cited by Agence France-Presse, the University of Lyon-III condemned “with the greatest firmness the unacceptable and scandalous inscriptions which have been tagged” and introduced that he had taken authorized motion. According to the college staff, video surveillance photos present, shortly after midnight, 5 authors of those inscriptions, wearing darkish garments, hooded and hooded, together with a younger woman.

“Cry of anger”

Yaël Braun-Pivet was touring within the Rhône on Friday, as a part of the coverage of opening Parliament. Several left-wing organizations, together with the Solidaires Etudiant-es unions and the National Union of Students of France (UNEF) or the native part of Jeunes Insoumis.es, denounced her coming to Lyon-III, describing her in a press launch as “prominent figure of unconditional support for the criminal actions of the Israeli state”.

“While the deaths caused by Israel’s operations number in the tens of thousands (…) Yaël Braun-Pivet once again dared to defend the delivery of weapons to a criminal state »highlight the signatories of the press release.

On October 6, on BFM-TV, M^me Braun-Pivet had declared that he “Israel should not be disarmed”in response to statements by Emmanuel Macron calling for an finish to deliveries of weapons used to hold out combating in Gaza.

The demonstration in opposition to his go to is “a cry of anger against the government’s support for Israel”defined Timothée Martin-Brossat, from the Student Union, who additionally got here to precise his dissatisfaction with the precariousness of scholars.

In a tense environment, the native of the right-wing scholar union Union nationale inter-universitaire (UNI) was fractured. Outside the college, round ten individuals confirmed up with indicators displaying “Have you become accustomed to anti-Semitism? Not us! » Or “Anti-Semitism is a crime”.