The French Minister of Education, Pap Ndiaye, finally did not go to a meeting scheduled for 14:30 p.m. on Monday, April 24, at the National Institute of Teaching and Education (Inspe) in Lyon, because of the presence of a hundred protesters who were waiting for him in front of the building and tried to enter, noted an AFP journalist.
According to the Ministry of Education, which denies any "cancellation" of the visit, it was simply reorganized after these protesters forced an entrance to the training institute shouting "We too, we will pass in force", an allusion to the 49.3 used to adopt the unpopular pension reform.
The police, present inside, prevented them from entering the building by firing tear gas.
The visit "is not canceled, it is reversed", the minister going first to the rectorate, then to the Inspe, was told to the ministry.
"Break"
In front of a microphone held out to the rectorate, Pap Ndiaye confirmed that he would then go to Inspe.
The program of the visit communicated to the media did not initially mention a trip to the rectorate.
The announcement – only two hours before – of his trip had immediately sparked a call on social networks to welcome the minister in the ruckus.
The few hundred people who had gathered in the welcoming committee were equipped with pots, pans, buckets, boxes of tin biscuits, whistles but also foghorns and smoke, noted an AFP journalist.
With AFP
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