A professor "under functional protection" after opposing a break in Ramadan fast at Lyon University

A teacher from Lyon 2 was taken to court this Tuesday, April 1st, for his remarks on a Ramadan evening prohibited by the university. An investigation was opened.

At the University of Lyon-2, the course of geographer Fabrice Balanche was interrupted by some fifteen students and pro-Palestinian demonstrators on Tuesday, April 1. They reproached the teacher-researcher for having greeted the ban on a break in Ramadan fasting in a campus room a few days earlier.

Fabrice Balanche, lecturer at the Lumière Lyon 2 University, left her class on Tuesday, April 1, after several people took part in the amphitheatre. They criticized her for criticizing the holding of an evening of breaking the Ramadan fast on campus.

The master of conferences protested against an evening of breaking up the youth and the end of Ramadan in an amphitheatre occupied by the universe.

For several days, and more and more intensely since Tuesday 1st April, a cabal of extreme right-wing media has attacked the autonomous militants of Lyon 2. The starting point is the organization of a break in collective fasting with other associations, where we have been able to share a meal with all. Let us remember that it is usual for us to organize canteens or food distributions regularly on college to fight against student precariousness.

A course at the Université Lumière Lyon 2 was interrupted by about 15 people on 1 April. He had supported a decision deemed discriminatory