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"Her name was Christine Renon", can you read on a sign at a gathering of teachers in Bobigny, October 3, 2019, the funeral day of the headmistress who committed suicide in Pantin after having denounced the working conditions. Thomas SAMSON / AFP

Many rallies took place this Thursday, October 3 in France, in honor of Christine Renon, the school director of Pantin (Seine-Saint-Denis) who killed himself at the end of September.

There were dozens of teachers and parents to meet this morning in front of the station RER Pantin, in memory of Christine Renon. Monday, September 23, early morning, the guardian of the school Méhul had discovered the body of this woman of 58 years in the hall of the establishment.

Two days earlier, just before killing herself, this director described as " hyper-invested " had sent a thirty-something letter to thirty of her colleagues, in which she recounted " her exhaustion ", the loneliness of the directors, the accumulation of "time- consuming " tasks, ceaseless and contradictory reforms.

For Manon and Marion, two young teachers from Jean-Jaurès College in Pantin who came to attend this tribute, the story of Christine Renon resonates throughout the teaching profession. " We also work in bad conditions and we say that it can happen to any colleague, " they say, referring to a feeling of " not being considered ." The two professors report deteriorating situations, unreplaced staff and people " who can not take it anymore ".

Placard in hand, Anne-Laure, a teacher at Joliot-Curie College in Pantin, came this morning to express her anger against the National Education. " I find that the way the institution has treated this is revolting. How can we not want to speak on this? It's still dramatic, "she exclaims.

The Minister of National Education Jean-Michel Blanquer announced this Thursday morning the establishment of "a monitoring committee" responsible for changing the prerogatives of the function of school director. According to the SNUipp-FSU, the first primary union, half of the schools of Seine-Saint-Denis were to be closed this Thursday, day of funeral Christine Renon. A petition launched by an inter-union calling for " an entirely different quality of life at work " had collected this Thursday over 85,000 signatures.