France Universités denounces the intrusion of RN deputies at Sorbonne Paris Nord | EUROtoday

The go to, on Wednesday, of National Rally (RN) deputies Julien Odoul (Yonne), Philippe Ballard (Oise) and Laurent Jacobelli (Moselle) to the Villetaneuse campus (Seine-Saint-Denis) didn’t go unnoticed. According to movies uploaded to their X accounts, they went “check on site (…) Islamist entryism » assumed in this establishment.

The association of university presidents France Universités denounced Thursday, November 27, this “intrusion (…) unacceptable” And “without permission” on a campus of Sorbonne Paris Nord. The affiliation, which brings collectively 75 presidents of universities and public larger schooling colleges, denounced “a new instrumentalization of the university” and introduced “his full support” to the implicated president.

The presidency of Sorbonne Paris Nord condemned, on its web site, “with the greatest firmness”, “intrusion” elected officers, “accompanied by journalists (…) without any prior authorization” and “video captures” carried out “without consent”. She remembers the “legal framework” of the proper to picture and its energy to “administrative police aimed at guaranteeing the security, good order and serenity of university activities”.

A college that defends its range

On X, Laurent Jacobelli mentioned he “observed”on campus, a “omnipresence of the Islamic veil, corridors lined with far-left posters calling for violence, and insults uttered by student activists totally committed to the theses of La France insoumise”. Julien Odoul solutions questions from the far-right web site on web site Boulevard Voltaire. The deputies additionally cite an article from the weekly Current values of October 17, which presents the campus as “the temple of Muslim communitarianism”.

“This intrusion occurs in a context where certain media present our university as a space given over to identity logic. These stagings construct a distorted image, far removed from the realities of our campuses”additionally affirmed the presidency of Sorbonne Paris Nord, which remembers welcoming 26,000 college students. According to her, “the social, cultural and intellectual diversity that runs through our establishment is a strength”.