Xavier-Laurent Salvador: The school has been, is and will always remain the place of confrontation for all religious fanaticism. Salvador: Collapse the school, and all the principles that depend on it, among which we can cite language and secularism: there will be nothing left of French citizenship.
The Creil scarf affair had marked the beginning of a slow descent into hell for the school: children, convinced of fanaticism by their family circle, had been pushed to confront academic authority.