French Higher Education Minister Patrick Hetzel said he had filed a complaint with prosecutors over graffiti and slogans by pro-Palestinian activists near the Lyon 3 university campus.
“To effectively combat these unacceptable actions, I have just sent a report to the Lyon prosecutor. “I count on your firmness in action and the repression of these excesses that contradict the values of the republic,” – the minister wrote on his social network page X.
According to France Presse, during a visit to the University of Lyon 3, the president of the French National Assembly Yael Bron Pive They were greeted by activists shouting various slogans in support of Palestine. In addition, graffiti with similar content was observed on the walls near the university campus.
Over the past year, student protests in support of Palestine have become more frequent in France. Students protest against Paris’ policy of supporting Israel and demand an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. Student protests at the Sorbonne and Sciences Po were repeatedly dispersed by the police. Previously head of the Ile-de-France region Valerie Pecresse reported that it would suspend all funding for Sciences Po in the region until the protests stop, RIA Novosti clarifies.
