Pap Ndiaye, the Minister of National Education, expected in Toulouse at the start of the school year
Pap Ndiaye, the Minister of National Education, is expected this Thursday, September 1 in Toulouse. He is invited by the mayor to inaugurate a new school group which will bear the name of the Archbishop of Toulouse, Jules-Géraud Saliège, who opposed the deportations of Jews in 1942.
Officially, the Ministry of National Education, requested this Friday, does not confirm. But according to our information, it is indeed in the affirmative that Minister Pap Ndiaye responded to the invitation of Jean-Luc Moudenc, the mayor of Toulouse, to inaugurate this Thursday, September 1, back-to-school day, a new group school.
It will be a symbolic visit because the school in question, located in the Lalande district in the north of Toulouse, will bear the name of Jules-Géraud Saliège, the archbishop of Toulouse who, on August 23, 1942, a few weeks after the Vel d’Hiv, a position publicly taken against the deportations and persecutions of the Jews required by the Nazis and Vichy. That day, the one who will be made a Companion of the Liberation after the victory had a famous letter read from the pulpit which opened the way to many acts of resistance.
During the commemoration of the Liberation of Toulouse, on August 19, Jean-Luc Moudenc, for the first time, paid homage to Cardinal Saliège. Before laying a wreath this Tuesday, August 23 in front of his bust near the Saint-Etienne cathedral. So many events intended to commemorate the eighties of this letter.
For the inauguration on Thursday, the mayor of Mauriac, the village of Cantal where Jules-Géraud Saliège, the president of the departmental council of Cantal, was born, and the former deputy of Cantal and secretary of state, Alain Marleix, also been invited, as well as the president of the central Consistory of France.