Before you make a shade of size this is marginal

Save the end of the school year, preserve what remains of the reform of universities and, more prosaically, out of a movement threatened both getting bogged down and slipping: the Government plays the firmness in the conflict to the students and teachers-researchers. After hammered his willingness to preserve degrees, has now openly taken to target blockers. Sunday, the Secretary General of the Elysee, Claude Guéant, denounced "the activism of a minority which impedes all over the world". The next day, the UMP asked that the blockers should be "prosecuted". Yesterday, Valérie Pécresse, Minister of higher education, has pressed the nail by promising "of deductions from wages" teachers "hindering the public service" by withholding the notes, blocking the PBI or reviews. "The Government is of the oil on the fire." "It takes considerable risks", immediately retorted Stéphane Tassel, the General Secretary of the SNESup-FSU.

If Government shells as hard, it is because it has only a thin window of shooting before the event on May 14. Processions of demonstrators became sparse, but the determination is not weakening, and especially, the situation is particularly unstable in universities. 20 (Of 85) remained more or less blocked yesterday, and the situation deteriorated in Caen (see below) and Grenoble-III.

The speech became radicalized

The Government is able to count on the support of a worried public opinion in the course of the end of the year: according to a survey published Monday by "Le Parisien", 52 of students reported wanting to pass their exams "even simplified". Last weekend, the concern was mounted a notch after the coordination of universities called "not to organise the examinations", (without the support however the Unef, Fage, SNESup, CFDT unions...).

Yesterday, the Presidents of universities have been reassuring, saying that "in many universities, courts have resumed" and "in the vast majority, the reviews will take place". Rest in a dozen of them, the holding of examinations is still uncertain, some, such as Paris-IV, leaving glide the ambiguity as to the validation of the second half.

The Government also shows the finger at the extreme left, it considers responsible for the hardening of the movement. On some campuses, the speeches became radicalized and of AG have been stormy. Some are passed to the acts (blockades, invasions of premises...), arousing strong internal tensions. This is the case in Rennes-II, where, despite the resumption of classes, the "climate is not good", according to its President, Marc Gontard. "The extreme left has some weight on the most radical of the teachers and students", he acknowledged yesterday on France Inter. Before you make a shade of size: "this is marginal." "There are some people who may be left in the universities, but do they represent the thousands of personal" No! ", said the pattern of Presidents of universities, Lionel Collet.

"Derogatory and wrong".

Universities, of which the image has already been very wounded by the movement, have in fact, little desire to appear as the strongholds of leftists. As trade unions, they denounce "government operation" designed to discredit the movement and to publish out of the game. "When students 2,000 amphis vote the strike, it is derogatory and wrong to say that they are being manipulated by the extreme left," said the Unef. After Valérie Pécresse has accused the Socialists of not to condemn the blocking, one of them, François Hollande, held yesterday that the Government and the extreme left are responsible for the decay.