PM GABRIEL ATTAL AWARDS SCHOLAR PROJECTS OVER ILAN HALIMI PRIZE

USPA NEWS - The 34 years old French PM, Gabriel Attal, recently appointed chaired the Ilan HALIMI Prize Award Ceremony, Wednesday February 14, 2024, alongside the newly appointed Minister of National Education, Nicole Belloubet, at the Hotel de Matignon.
Ilan Halimi was a young French victim of anti-Semitic hatred, kidnaped and torture to the point of death, by the Fofana « Barbarian Gang » in 1999. It is in his memory that the Ilan Halimi Prize was created to reward young people under 25-year-olds who mobilize and commit to reducing racist and anti-Semitic prejudices and carry out awareness-raising projects aimed at other young people. It is also for the sake of lowering violence, at schools, and raising awareness over accepting the difference and fighting racism, antisemitism and any the of discrimination more generally speaking when it comes to dealing with the scholar ecosystem.
The three winners, made up of young students and college students, presented their educational projects fighting against racism, discrimination, and anti-Semitism, of which Ilan Halimi was a victim. The Minister of Education Belloubet (Former Minister of Justice) awarded the prizes to the three winners.

THE ILAN HALIMI PRIZE WAS CREATED IN 2018, BY THE INTERMINISTERIAL DELEGATION FOR THE FIGHT AGAINST RACISM ANTISEMITISM AND ANTI-LGBT HATE

The Ilan Halimi prize, created in 2018 by the Interministerial Delegation for the Fight Against Racism, Anti-Semitism and Anti-LGBT Hate (DILCRAH), rewards collective work mobilizing at least 5 young people aged under 25 who have carried out a action aimed at combating racist and anti-Semitic prejudices and stereotypes.
This prize bears the name of Ilan Halimi, a young Frenchman kidnapped, kidnapped and tortured, died of anti-Semitic hatred, died because of prejudice in 2006. He was 23 years old, he is the one who could be our brother, our cousin, our friend.
This prize aims to reward those who mobilize and who, through their creativity and inventiveness, commit to reducing prejudices.
The jury composed of personalities from the world of sport, culture, education, citizenship and commitment will carry out the qualifications.

See, 6th edition at dilcrah.gouv.fr

AWARDS OF THE 6TH EDITION OF THE ILAN HALIMI PRIZE
This year, the prize list is of very high quality, over the course of several educational projects, presented by the bottles of middle schoolers and students, serving the fight against racism, anti-Semitism and hatred of others. The trophies of the awarded projects were presented on Wednesday February 14, 2024, during the ceremony at the Hôtel de Matignon by Gabriel Attal, Prime Minister in the presence of Nicole Belloubet, Minister of National Education and Youth, Sarah El Hairy , Minister Delegate for Children, Youth and Families; Emilie Freche, president of the jury; Olivier Klein, interministerial delegate to DILCRAH and the jury.
The finalists invited to the Hôtel de Matignon received their prize after a presentation of their projects, explaining their approach, the genesis of their action, its relevance and the effects it was able to produce.

OLIVIER KLEIN INTERMINISTERIAL DELEGATE FOR THE FIGHT AGAINST RACISM, ANTI SEMITISM & ANTI-LGBT HATRED (DILCRAH) OPENED THE CEREMONY

Olivier Klein, interministerial delegate for the fight against racism, anti-Semitism and anti-LGBT hatred (DILCRAH), delivered an opening keynote, as he introduced the ceremony, and laying out the program, and the context of how and when the scholars and students enrolled the competition for Ilan Halimi Prize, especially, this year as ut resonates even more, as regards the 7 October 2023 tragic attack, in Israel, led by terrorist group Hamas, killing more than 1,400 victims « 

It is the name of all those who say no to racism, anti-Semitism, and Ilan we will never give up this fight. Since the October 7 Pogrom attack, acts have jumped 1000%. This is unbearable in absolute terms, 80 years after the Shoah and even more unbearable in the period we have. » he introduced.

He adds that "I believe in the commitment of this government and that the DILCRAH commission that I lead, which assumes the sanction in the face of anti-Semitism and all hatreds, we must continue to fight, these are crimes", affirming that " DILCRAH will take on all these projects head on. Nothing will be worse than giving the feeling that the Republic is more concerned about its dead than its living."
Olivier Klein, revealing that “A handful of projects will be rewarded today by your government, allowing Republican meetings during these last two days. " He then promises to “form a Zero Hate generation of Tomorrow!"

GRAND PRIZE ILAN HALIMI HONORS THE MEMORY OF ILHAN WHO WAS TORTURED AND KILLED BY THE BARBARIAN GANG IN 1999, JUST BECAUSE HE WAS JEWISH
Ilan Would have been 41 years old today of laughter, sharing. However, he was the victim of barbarity, through torture. His life was stolen by hatred. No one can really imagine the limits of humanity, which were touched, once again, by anti-Semites, and barbarians, by inflicting torture on Ilan Halimi, because he was Jewish. There is a minister of education, we had the impression that we talk more about anti-Semitism than other types of hatred. Obviously all forms of discrimination must be banned. » he reassures.
The Prime Minister explains “In France, 20% of the population is made up of Jews in “When I was Minister of Education, we increased the tributes to the 11 French people who were killed because they were Jewish, then the murder by Gisele Halimi, the terrorist attack on the Zaratora school etc. We must never allow this limit to be crossed, he adds.
“We must pass it on to young people, even if it is not easy, and tell them things, as was the case with the deportation.

I listened and spoke with the families, the stories are chilling, when we learn the details of the torture suffered by their family member. » says Gabriel Attal, the new Prime Minister.

SINCE THE TERRORIST ATTACK OF OCTOBER 7, 2023, IN ISRAEL, ANT-SEMITE ACTS SPARKED IN FRANCE.
In three months, there have been as many anti-Semitic acts as in 3 years.
sadly announces, Prime Minister Gabriel Attal, tells the story of a parent, having lost his daughter, on October 7, 2023, during the Hamas terrorist attack in Israel. “One of the parents, who had an injured daughter with a broken leg, she had defied her father, trying to keep her from going to this rave party. His daughter went there anyway, dancing on a chair, with her broken leg, until the terrorists arrived shooting everywhere; the victims started to run and flee, except this young woman, with a broken leg, who could not walk. The terrorists then blew up the ambulance nearby. Her father did not find her body, except for three of his daughter's teeth. This barbarity is chilling and inhumane. » laments the Head of Government of France, who also lost four Jewish French citizens, victims, during this tragedy of October 7, 2023.

The explosion of anti-Semitic acts that followed this attack, with stars of David not appreciated. And beyond the silences, we firmly reject, and condemn, those who dared to describe these acts as terrorists.
PM Attal then appears reassuring and optimistic: "We must remain deeply hopeful, because we were able to feel it, in the face of the communion of people, during the march on November 12, and also through we can also count on the determination of our government to strengthen our law and the forces of order and the determination of justice in the face of anti-Semitism, and also because all of you, here present, in your commitments without which we would not have been able to open these doors. I see young people who bring Republican unity to life.

“MORE THAN EMPATHY I BELIEVE IN ALTRUISM”, EXPLAINED PM GABRIEL ATTAL
The battle is transmitted through messages, by speaking and making people understand through a civic closure to atone by the PR, this fight is as important as reading and writing. We are going to go through many changes, at school through stages of learning about respect and self-confidence and at the same time empathy, I believe in altruism. » insisted Prime Minister Gabriel Attal, while recalling that France is the nation of the founding fathers of enlightenment, for education and also for having transmitted the spirit of the heart. “This is also the meaning of the Ilan Halimi Prize for 6 years through the fight against hatred. This initiative is beneficial and thanks to Jerome Guedj, the MP, who launched this initiative when he was at the Essonne regional council." The PM then thanks the young public who presented their educational objects, in the name of the Ilan Halimi Prize. "Thank you to all young people, with variety in sport, culture, social, podcasts, expo, show and archive search »

FRATERNITY IS OFTEN THE POOR PART OF THE NATIONAL MOTTO “LIBERTY EQUALITY FRATERNITY”

"This is often the poor value of our motto. Now a repopulated franchise gathered in this unity to give importance to its nobility, thank you Fabienne Servant Schreiber and the young people, and you came from all corners of France, you find yourself around of the essence of our Republic and its values." Prime Minister Gabriel Attal exclaimed, addressing one of the greatest French producers of committed films, Fabienne Servan Schreiber.

When I was Minister of Education, after the massacre of October 7, in November I asked that we publicize this Ilhan Halimi prize, to encourage that there be more projects. We went from 40 to 45 projects, which is good progress." PM Attal said.

Addressing the winners of the Ilhan Halimi Prize, the Prime Minister congratulates them, "You all deserve these prizes, here and Dear Nicole (addressing the Minister of Education Nicole Belloubet) "there is still room for improvement. time in the year I want us to double in a year, new projects for this Ilan Halimi prize! » launches PM Gabriel Attal, as a challenge to his Minister of National Education.

PM Attal then allows “I will personally mobilize all means to fight against anti-Semitism and this in particular, with the history and memory that we must put to work.
Simon Veil said “memory is about teaching and transmitting, that’s where there is a duty” this was Simone Veil’s definition of the duty to remember.

I want us to make better use of citizenship courses with a single objective, to accept difference and fight against discrimination.
It’s a daily fight and of every moment, so we’re talking and put our trust on the projects today, thanked Gabriel Attal the Prime Minister, as he closed up the ceremony of the Ilan Halimi Prize, in the Matignon Palace Hotel…/

$ THE GRAND PRIZE: “A starry night, against anti-Semitism”, a short film made by young people accompanied by the Limoges Local Mission and director Renaud Fely.
$ THE JURY PRIZE: “The deportees of Saint-Malo”. Students from two Terminale classes at the Jacques Cartier high school in Saint-Malo embarked on memory work aimed at retracing the history and journey of the 63 men, women and children deported from the city.
$ THE JURY PRIZE: “The fictitious trial” of the BDE of the Aix Marseille law faculty.
$ THE JURY PRIZE: the awareness clip “We say no” for the students of the Aragon-Picasso high school in Givors.