SUD-Éducation and Solidaires student union federations denounced in a joint statement Saturday the "precariousness" of "the life of students", the day after the gesture "to the political scope" of a young man of 22 who is immolated in the street in Lyon.
"His act can not be reduced to despair alone, it is also to the political scope." In his message, our comrade describes the precariousness he suffers, consequence of liberal policies, and daily racism, "says the union, which stresses that "precariousness is spreading" and "grinds more and more lives, including the lives of students".
Friday afternoon, a 22-year-old student from Saint-Etienne was badly burned in Lyon after slaughtering in the street in front of a university restaurant in the 7th arrondissement. The young man, 90% burned, is currently "between life and death" at the Burn Center of Edouard Herriot Hospital in Lyon, say the unions. The girlfriend of the victim, who studied at Lyon 2 University, had alerted the emergency services of the accident.
Minister Frédérique Vidal expresses "deep emotion in the face of" a "dramatic act"
The Minister of Higher Education Frédérique Vidal went Saturday morning in Lyon to meet the president of the university and CROUS teams to "share his deep emotion with the dramatic act" of the young man, "to which she sent her first thoughts," according to the ministry.
Lyon 2 University has announced that a listening unit will be set up from Tuesday at 14h on the Porte des Alpes campus. An investigation was opened to determine the reasons for his action, but in a long message posted on Facebook and relayed this Saturday by the daily Le Progrès, the student had raised his financial difficulties and justified his action with political demands, accusing in particular "Macron, Holland, Sarkozy and the EU" from "[have] killed".
"Let us fight against the rise of fascism, which only divides us, and of liberalism, which creates inequalities ... My last wish is also that my comrades continue to struggle to finally put an end to all this. ", he says in this text.