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"Mr President, I should like to come back to the attacks suffered in my country, France, by some young German pupils while they took part in an educational exchange programme with some schools in the Paris suburbs. These pupils were greeted with Nazi salutes and were chased by youngsters throwing stones at them. These are extremely serious events, and I should like to express my indignation to you. These are, I am afraid to say, far from isolated incidents.
When it is clear that the European idea was constructed, of course, in order to put a stop to xenophobia and to wars between nations, actions such as these are inadmissible. I wanted to take the floor because some people seem to play down actions such as these by claiming that they are normal. That version of ‘normality’ is unacceptable, however, and Europeans unfortunately no longer realise this. It seems to me that it is our duty to react most indignantly.
I should like to say to all of you, ladies and gentlemen, and especially to our German friends, that we do not endorse this type of behaviour and that we are even less inclined to allow such practices to be passed over in silence. As a member of the Committee on Culture and Education, I have decided to send a letter to my country’s Minister for National Education calling for him to take appropriate action faced with these disgraceful acts."@en1
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