Investigations are underway after a principal education advisor of the establishment filed a complaint, harassed online following an incident involving a student who presented himself veiled to the written test of the French bac.
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“The school life service has been reinforced, we warn the rectorate of Paris, and the surveillance of the premises, enhanced”. The Lycée Charlemagne, one of the schools in the IV e district of Paris, which is also one of the baccalaureate examination centers, is the subject of particular attention to academic services , judicial and prefectural since a survey was opened, Friday, June 17, by the national pole to combat online hatred of the Paris prosecutor’s office, after the filing of a complaint by a main education advisor (CPE) , victim of death threats and online harassment.
The facts date back to Thursday, June 16, when a young girl wearing the veil appeared in front of her examination center, the Charlemagne high school, to participate in the early events of 1 re – In other words, in the writing of French. The CPE, at the entrance, would have forbidden her to enter if she did not remove her veil. Then, according to a police source quoted by AFP, the versions differ. The CPE ensures that the student refused to reveal himself; The high school student claims to have done it but not to have been able to enter the establishment right away.
“Titus exchanges”
A testimony of this pupil, appearing from the back, a pink veil on the hair, was put online by the permanent revolution’s extreme left site; It echoes the first version. Mediapart also relayed the testimony of the girl claiming to have been “assaulted”. The elements transmitted by the rectorate of Paris confirm “tense exchanges” but relay another story:
“According to the first elements collected, this candidate would initially refused to remove her veil, unlike the regulations in force, in order to enter the high school and carry out identity checks, despite Reminders to the law made several times by the staff of school life, present at the reception. “
The tone would be mounted, “before the candidate finally accepts to remove her veil, and that she can be accompanied in her room”.
The wearing of religious sign during the exams is framed by the vademecum of secularism, a sort of toolbox produced by the Council of Sages of Secularism, for use of the educational community, in 2018, and regularly updated since. On this subject, it is recalled that the Article L141-5-1 of the Education Code applies to students educated in the public-and this is the case for this teenager, confirmed the rectorate. These students cannot carry signs or outfits by which they “ostensibly manifest a religious affiliation” when they pass tests of a competition or an exam, can be read there. On the other hand, these provisions do not apply to private candidates, even if they are summoned to the premises of a public establishment. “They do not become this alone of public education students,” said the Vademecum. They must nevertheless submit to the rules of organization, control of their identity and prevention of the risk of fraud.
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