https://www.lefigaro.fr/nice/nice-u...eux-crie-allah-akbar-dans-une-eglise-20230620
A few days after the resounding affair of Muslim prayers in schools in Nice, a new incident involving a gang of middle school students took place Tuesday morning in the Saint Roch church, east of the city. At around 11 a.m., the teenagers entered the place of worship and doused themselves with holy water before one of them shouted “Allahu Akbar” – a Muslim exclamation meaning “Allah is the greatest” in Arabic, but which is also regularly heard during Islamist attacks.
The facts were reported at the end of the day on Twitter by the first deputy mayor for Security, Anthony Borré, then confirmed in the wake of Le Figaro by several concordant sources. The elected official assures that the City takes the case “very seriously.” He also expects a “firm response” from the president of the Alpes-Maritimes, Charles-Ange Ginesy, competent on colleges. In this sense, a letter is sent directly to him. “Since October 29, 2020 and the Islamist attack on the Notre-Dame Basilica in our city, you are not unaware of how traumatic it can be for our fellow citizens to hear such remarks within a church and the painful memory that the latter can revive,” he wrote to her. And to continue: “Faced with these attempts to destabilize society and with the attacks that our secular Republic is undergoing, we must provide a strong and collective response.”
However, if the individual implicated for the religious cry is indeed a schoolboy educated in an establishment of the department, the facts did not take place in the school setting. “So what? If it is provocation, the department must react, either by getting in touch with parents and by strengthening awareness-raising actions in colleges. And then, if it is the expression of a fact of radicalization, it is also up to President Ginesy to manage the situation through child protection, another departmental competence,” said a close adviser by Anthony Borre. The latter assures that it is in no way a political maneuver to cast opprobrium on the Department, with whom relations are very strained.
A few days after the resounding affair of Muslim prayers in schools in Nice, a new incident involving a gang of middle school students took place Tuesday morning in the Saint Roch church, east of the city. At around 11 a.m., the teenagers entered the place of worship and doused themselves with holy water before one of them shouted “Allahu Akbar” – a Muslim exclamation meaning “Allah is the greatest” in Arabic, but which is also regularly heard during Islamist attacks.
The facts were reported at the end of the day on Twitter by the first deputy mayor for Security, Anthony Borré, then confirmed in the wake of Le Figaro by several concordant sources. The elected official assures that the City takes the case “very seriously.” He also expects a “firm response” from the president of the Alpes-Maritimes, Charles-Ange Ginesy, competent on colleges. In this sense, a letter is sent directly to him. “Since October 29, 2020 and the Islamist attack on the Notre-Dame Basilica in our city, you are not unaware of how traumatic it can be for our fellow citizens to hear such remarks within a church and the painful memory that the latter can revive,” he wrote to her. And to continue: “Faced with these attempts to destabilize society and with the attacks that our secular Republic is undergoing, we must provide a strong and collective response.”
However, if the individual implicated for the religious cry is indeed a schoolboy educated in an establishment of the department, the facts did not take place in the school setting. “So what? If it is provocation, the department must react, either by getting in touch with parents and by strengthening awareness-raising actions in colleges. And then, if it is the expression of a fact of radicalization, it is also up to President Ginesy to manage the situation through child protection, another departmental competence,” said a close adviser by Anthony Borre. The latter assures that it is in no way a political maneuver to cast opprobrium on the Department, with whom relations are very strained.
