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Praud defends CNEWS after debate over school blockades and policing

The French panel contrasts the education minister's appeal for calm with calls for faster punishment, before the host turns to criticism of his program.

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"Je ne suis pas dupe !" : Pascal Praud sur les attaques contre CNEWS

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0:00Carreyrou disputes the ministry's school-blockade count; Usai argues that government handling of unions encourages disruption.
2:04Garbarini describes Corsican families intervening when attempts are made to blockade schools.
4:24Geffray appeals for calmer rhetoric, followed by Mélenchon's support for the mobilized young people.
6:01Brugère advocates rapid judicial responses and short sentences for minors, before the panel debates policing.
11:50Usai and Praud disagree over the status of manual learning and university qualifications.
14:46Praud turns to criticism of his program, saying he must guard against opponents attributing motives to it.

School blockades, police intervention and punishment for minors dominate the discussion before Pascal Praud reaches the subject promised in the title: his belief that critics are looking for ways to attack his program.

The excerpt from L'Heure des Pros, posted by France's radio broadcaster Europe 1, brings together competing responses to student mobilization and violence. Political commentator Gérard Carreyrou disputes the Education Ministry's count of blocked schools, accusing it of understating the disruption. Journalist Yoann Usai argues that Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu's handling of unions encourages further blockades.

Lawyer Pascal-Pierre Garbarini offers Corsica as a contrast, describing families intervening themselves when schools face attempts at blockading. His account prompts Praud to express a growing wish to be Corsican.

Clips then set out different political and judicial responses. Education Minister Édouard Geffray appeals for collective responsibility and calmer political language. Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the left-wing figure behind La France Insoumise, supports the mobilized young people, saying their action serves the national interest. Magistrates' union leader Béatrice Brugère advocates very rapid criminal-justice responses and brief sentences adapted to minors.

An Odoxa poll commissioned by Le Figaro supplies the next discussion point: whether unrest and difficulties maintaining order amount to a crisis of France's governing institutions. The panel debates direct police intervention involving minors and the role of civic education.

The conversation also turns to vocational learning. An animated exchange between Usai and Praud questions the hierarchy between manual training and university study, with Praud challenging a separation between practical and intellectual abilities.

Only near the end, around fifteen minutes in, does Praud explicitly address scrutiny of the show. He says the political climate requires greater vigilance against critics attributing motives to it. The upload's title, "\"Je ne suis pas dupe !\" : Pascal Praud sur les attaques contre CNEWS", means "'I'm no fool!': Pascal Praud on attacks against CNEWS." That defense is the closing turn of a much broader public-order debate.