Pap Ndiaye defends himself from wanting to "dilute" the Council of Elders of Secularism. He announced the appointment of a new member, a historian close to Samuel Paty, after criticism of the Council.
"This council had no legal existence, I give it one," the education minister told France Inter. "My objective is both obviously to ensure a firm secularism - and I will not move from this line - but it is also to make secularism loved," he added.