Laurent Wauquiez declares the suspension of help within the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes area at Lyon-II University, which he accuses of “Islamo-leftist drift” | EUROtoday

The candidate for the presidency of the Les Républicains Party (LR) Laurent Wauquiez introduced on Wednesday May 7 on CNews/Europe 1, the suspension of subsidies from the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes area at Lyon-II University, which he accuses of “Islamo-leftist drift”.

The chief of LR deputies and former boss of the area, who has turn into a particular advisor to his successor, Fabrice Pannekoucke, defined to the France-Presse (AFP) company that he requested for the Ministry of Higher Education to steer a “Independent inspection mission”. Waiting for, “We suspend all cooperation” With Lyon-II, he continued, saying that breakfasts for Ramadan fasting or “Prayers” had taken place within the institution.

The college is on the coronary heart of an intense controversy for the reason that emergence, the 1^er April, of a gaggle of individuals with a hid face throughout a course in Fabrice Balanche, specialist in Iraq and Syria, taken to job by activists the taxant of “Racist” and “Zionist”and who had left the room. The incident aroused unanimous condemnation, and the prosecution, seized by the college, which granted practical safety to Mr. Balanche, opened an investigation for “hindering the exercise of the teaching function”.

Since then, the tutorial has multiplied the interviews to denounce “Islamo-leftism” In power in line with him in Lyon-II and blame his administration with a scarcity of assist. In an interview with the native press, the president of Lyon-II, Isabelle von Bueltzingsloewen, stated that the interruption of her course was “Intolerable”however denounced the “Lyrics in conspiracy, deleterious for the university”from the trainer. She then was the topic of loss of life threats, which prompted the prosecution to open a second investigation.

On April 29, the prosecution acquired one other report on laudatory remarks on the Lebanese motion Hezbollah, thought of as terrorist by Israel or the United States, attributed to the Vice-President of Lyon-II Willy Beauvallet-Haddad. An investigation for “apology for terrorism” was opened in stride. Mr. Beauvallet-Haddad resigned on Monday from the vice-presidency for “Lower the pressure”.

“Overbidding”

According to the area, the monetary moratorium is established to “Nearly 19 million euros” And primarily considerations funds of actual property tasks showing within the state-region plan contract. Contacted by AFP, the college didn’t want to touch upon a call which it says doesn’t “Not having been officially informed”.

The socialist opposition to the area, by the voice of the group’s vice-president, Johann Cesa, denounced a call “Anti -republican”,, “Brutal, without nuance”. The environmental member Marie-Charlotte Garin judged on X that Laurent Wauquiez “Invented the offense of academic opinion”.

“Trumpism has just crossed the Atlantic”reacted Jean-Luc Mélenchon, in reference to the initiatives of the American president geared toward universities in his nation. There “Overbidding” From Laurent Wauquiez to the Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau, whom he’ll face throughout an LR congress on May 17 and 18, “Vire the political police and obscurantism against universities”added the chief of France rebellious on X.

In 2021, the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes area had already suspended sure funding granted to Sciences Po Grenoble, crossed by energetic debates on the idea of Islamophobia.