Every year, students from the Lyon and Rhône area go on an educational trip to Auschwitz-Birkenau.
But the metropolis of Lyon has decided to withdraw from this school trip to the death camp in Poland for the second year in a row.
Something to alert the opposition. For the group “Inventing the Metropolis of Tomorrow”, chaired by Louis Pelaez, it is an “irrational decision bordering on indecency given the issues of commemoration”. Especially since the schoolchildren dependent on the Rhône department will continue to go to Auschwitz.
Asked about this issue in the metropolitan council on Monday, the majority of environmentalists remained on their positions. The war in Ukraine is the main reason that would lead the community to cancel these trips to Auschwitz. While 1000 kilometers separate Kraków from Donbass in Ukraine…
“It seems to us that the situation in Ukraine imposes a real reflection on the causes and the path that led to these conflicts, an awareness of the history of Europe and the importance that must be given to it for the future trips carry undeniably contribute to such awareness,” said Louis Pelaez in a press release.
Vice-President Véronique Moreira, responsible for universities, denounced a “sterile and odious” controversy. A nod to questions from some who wondered if it wasn’t the fact of flying teenagers that bothered Greens more. However, the elected official acknowledged that the “relevance” of a trip to Auschwitz has been questioned and that there may be a need to focus instead on a trip to Natzweiler-Struthof, the former concentration camp in Alsace.
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