Jean-Sébastien Vialatte sent law enforcement officers to the Reynier primary school twice in November 2016 to alert school officials that he was opposed to Arabic being included as a compulsory course. According to the mayor, French students were being forced to take the classes.
The stand-off between Vialatte and the school was revealed after a lawyer handed over court documents from a failed lawsuit by the council to stop the classes. The documents were leaked to the media.
In September 2016, a parent with a child attending Reynier shared an image on Facebook stating that the Arabic classes were mandatory, sparking an outcry from concerned parents.
Yasser Louati, a French Muslim activist, said the backlash was representative of the “normalization of state-sponsored racism,” the International Business Times reported.
“Sending the police to make sure an Arabic class isn’t held shows how much hate government institutions can express for Arabs. In 2015, we had cases of primary school children being humiliated, assaulted, and even taken to the police by their teachers,” Louati said. “Then we had school girls being barred from school for wearing a long skirt or the prohibition of substitute meals for Muslims and Jews.”
Vialatte, the UMP deputy of the Var was found guilty and fined in 2014 by the Paris Criminal Court for the “provocation to racial hatred” for having tweeted about the “descendants of slaves”.
In May 2013, in response to violence perpetrated by blacks during the celebration of Paris-Saint-Germain’s football victory, Vialatte tweeted: “The rioters are surely descendants of slaves. But they have excuses. Taubira [Christiane Taubira, the black Socialist minister of Justice] will reward them,” before erasing the message.
On Sunday French police again fired tear gas into demonstrators, who protested against “police violence”. The police responded to Molotov cocktails being thrown in the French capital, Le Parisien newspaper reported.
The clashes erupted as up thousands took to the streets in Paris once more to protest against the police. The newspaper noted that two police officers were injured and had to be hospitalized.
Today French libs organized #MarchePourLaJusticeEtLaDignite to defend Muslim immigrants. After the march ended, Islamists attacked police pic.twitter.com/UPiXinVWfa
— Texas Lone Star (@SouthLoneStar) March 19, 2017
Since February,an incident involving a black drug dealer called Theo, sparked off two weeks of unrest and riots in Paris that led to arrests of more than 240 people.
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