The management of Sciences-Po Grenoble has decided to suspend its German teacher Klaus Kinzler from his duties for four months. Accused of having made defamatory remarks, the latter reacted on Tuesday on CNEWS.
This decision, notified in a decree issued by Sabrine Saurugger, director of the IEP, reports that the teacher “seriously disregarded several obligations”, in particular “in terms of professional discretion”.
“Five or six times, she forbade me to speak to the media, it is a very important restriction of my fundamental rights, my academic freedom. Order that I did not respect, ”replied Klaus Kinzler on CNEWS on Tuesday. “This relentlessness aims to cover with a thick veil all the dysfunctions of our establishment which date back over a year and a half. A radical extremist minority has seized power by setting up a climate of fear which consists in intimidating and defaming when one does not share the Wokist theories which are in vogue, ”he continued.
In the wake of the announcement of the sanction, Laurent Wauquiez, president of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, announced the suspension of regional funding (around 100,000 euros per year excluding investment in projects) granted to the establishment.
Laurent Wauquiez suspends regional funding
In various interviews that he had recently given, Klaus Kinzler had depicted Sciences-Po Grenoble as being an institute of “political re-education”, accusing a “hard core” of colleagues, followers according to him of “woke” theories, of indoctrinating them. students, and the management of the IEP to let it go.
This series of statements followed a vehement exchange of emails dating from the end of 2000, between Klaus Kinzler and a colleague historian about a day of debates entitled “racism, anti-Semitism and Islamophobia”, a term whose scientific character he contested, while criticizing Islam.
Then, on March 4, the German teacher and another teacher were the target of posters accusing them of “Islamophobia”, posted by students and relayed on social networks by unions.
Although the Ministry of Higher Education had recommended sanctioning them, 16 IEP students, prosecuted before a disciplinary body, were released on November 26. A student had received a suspended suspension.