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On the front page of the press in France, reactions to the early retirement of the principal of a Parisian high school, threatened with death on social networks after an altercation with a student, to whom he had asked to remove her veil. "Principal threatened with death: one case too many?", the local newspaper
La Dépêche du Midi
recalls that the law of March 15, 2004, stipulates that "the wearing of signs or outfits (manifesting) ostensibly a religious affiliation is prohibited in public schools, middle schools and high schools.
Le Parisien/Aujourd'hui en France
sees the school "going backwards" on the front of secularism and authority, because of the "multiplication of incidents and attacks" against school leaders. “Assaults which should incite resistance rather than a collective retreat,” according to the newspaper.
Le Figaro
accuses the National Education of having sought to "make up" the hasty departure of the headmaster of Ravel leaving for "personal convenience" and accuses the State of having "capitulated, foundered by its cowardice in the face of ideology Islamist. Questioned by
Libération
, heads of establishments speak of a "marginal" event but also their "permanent solitude" when it comes to enforcing the law on religious symbols - even if they recognize that An effort has been made in this area since the assassination of Samuel Paty in October 2020.
In the press, too, there are questions about the effectiveness of the "XXL net square" operations currently being carried out almost everywhere in France to fight against drug trafficking.
La Croix
reports the criticisms expressed by “many actors on the ground”, notably police officers and magistrates. The Christian newspaper recalls that these operations, orchestrated and "widely publicized" by the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin, consist of "deploying the police for a few days in neighborhoods affected by trafficking", in other words, of carrying out to "punch" operations in a context where homicides or attempted homicides linked to drug trafficking have exploded: 315 last November, or 57% more than the previous year, the most affected city remaining by far Marseille, with 47 deaths in 2023, but this violence no longer spares medium-sized cities, like Rennes or Dijon.
A word, also, of a bill examined this week in the National Assembly on “hair discrimination”. Are the deputies going to get upset over this text defended by Olivier Serva, a deputy from Guadeloupe, who judges that France is behind on the subject, compared to countries like the United States and Great Britain? ?
The France 24 website
specifies that this proposed law targets in particular mockery, harassment or even discrimination in hiring due to "the cut, color, length or texture (of) hair".
Also read “Unprofessional” hair? Hair discrimination under debate in the Assembly
Interviewed by
Libération
, Olivier Serva cites a survey carried out in the United States, according to which two out of three black women say they have had to change their haircut to apply for a job interview - a problem which does not only affect black people. , since this survey also indicates that one in three blonde women claims to have been forced to dye their hair brown to appear more intelligent and progress in the company, and that the same would apply to redheads. According to this elected official, the subject would therefore be likely to affect a majority of French people.
However, some consider this proposed law... a little far-fetched.
Le Point
is quite upbeat: "The war is at the gates of Europe, the educational level is collapsing, the economic health of the country is frankly worrying. But, fortunately, our glorious deputies are working on the real problems of the time: yesterday in committee they adopted an article of law aimed at penalizing hair discrimination - it's absolutely not a joke", scathes the magazine. The debate even goes beyond French borders. The conservative Italian newspaper
Il Foglio
wonders whether it is really necessary to split hairs and add this new law to the French "elephantic regulatory machine", which it already considers to be a "solid bulwark" against discrimination.
Still in the “discrimination” section, from the United Nations side, this time.
The Guardian
, the British daily, reports that Saudi Arabia was chosen to chair the UN commission supposed to promote "gender equality and the empowerment of women", despite protests from several NGOs, which recalled the kingdom’s “terrible” record in this area.
We won't leave each other on this.
Le Parisien/Aujourd'hui en France
reports that a woman in her sixties brought what she thought was a lonely baby hedgehog to a shelter near Manchester. But the rescuers discovered that this benefactress had actually confused the creature… with a hat. The volunteers from the wild animal hospital who collected the cap took things with humor and suggested calling this new species "Heripompon".
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