On the sidewalk in front of the Sorbonne, the winners of the 2024 class of the French University Institute gathered to read aloud the speech they were not authorized to deliver, in the large amphitheater, to the Minister of Higher Education and Research. On Friday, October 18, the signatories – 68 teacher-researchers selected by an international jury for the exceptional quality of their research – wanted to take advantage of the ceremony to express their “deep concern, raised by [s]Implications and positions taken ».
Since his appointment as Minister of Higher Education and Research in Michel Barnier’s government on September 21, the 60-year-old former deputy (Les Républicains, LR) for the Lower Rhine has sparked controversy. On Saturday, October 12, he took the podium of the UNI congress, a right-wing student union that, during the 2022 presidential elections, had not called to vote for Emmanuel Macron in the second round against the National Rally candidate, Marine. LePen. .
the 1Ahem In November, in CNews, Patrick Hetzel regretted that the director of Sciences Po had lifted – pending the conclusions of the disciplinary section – the suspension imposed on four students accused of having filmed, during a “professional forum”, a mobilization of the Palestinian committee that pointed out the involvement of French companies in the war between Israel and Hamas. “Personally, I would be in favor of its exclusion.the minister declared on air. Since my arrival I have only reiterated the law and indicated that firmness is required and that at no time should our establishments be exploited. » At the same time, on the social network “political stance”.
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His entry into the government led to an exhumation by professors and researchers of the interventions of Deputy Hetzel in the seats of the National Assembly and on social networks. They trace the journey of a conservative right-winger who opposed marriage for all in 2013, the extension of medically assisted procreation to single women and lesbian couples in 2021, and the constitutionalization of the right to abortion in 2024. On a scientific level, his La application for authorization to use hydroxychloroquine even before the results of clinical trials during the Covid-19 pandemic left part of the university community stunned.
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