Between the political world and French universities, a rising distrust | EUROtoday

It was a show that surprised many teachers. On November 26, 2025, together with his colleagues Laurent Jacobelli (Moselle) and Philippe Ballard (Oise), the deputy of the National Rally of Yonne Julien Odoul was invited to the Sorbonne-Paris-Nord University, in Villetaneuse (Seine-Saint-Denis). A go to broadcast dwell on social networks, filmed by far-right media Borders And Boulevard Voltaire. The objective: ” check “ the affect of “religious proselytism” on campus, counting the younger girls carrying the Islamic veil.

Second stage of this political offensive, Julien Odoul tabled a invoice simply earlier than Christmas, on December 23, 2025, the only article of which offers for prohibiting the carrying of any ostentatious spiritual image at college. During the presentation of the textual content to the press, he defined that he had found “a university in total break and in total violation with secularism and with republican customs”. “A veiled student is Islamist entryism”he considers, on the grounds that the veil could be “a marker exploited by anti-republican movements”. “One factor is obvious, added Laurent Jacobelli. The college administration turns its head, even encourages conduct that doesn’t appear to us to be in keeping with the republican spirit, the secular spirit. »

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