School violence: after four months of investigation, fifty recommendations to break the "culture of silence"

" You are on day 1 – I hope history will remember this – but we must continue; there must be a day 2, a day 3," declared Constance Bertrand, a former student at Saint-Dominique de Neuilly, in Hauts-de-Seine, on March 20, during the first hearing of the parliamentary commission of inquiry into school violence, devoted to victims' groups. She urged the deputies: "I beg you, do not let the subject die."

Three months of investigation later, the two co-rapporteurs of the committee devoted to modalities of state control and prevention of violence in schools, Violette Spillebout (Renaissance, Nord) and Paul Vannier (La France insoumise, Val-d'Oise), do not intend to do so. They published, on Wednesday, July 2, a report which provides an unprecedented overview and analysis of violence committed by "adults in authority" against children on school premises.

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