Following the cancellation of the first national medical school entrance exam on Monday, another incident occurred on Thursday, October 23rd, at the Lyon Est faculty, causing panic among the candidates still in the room.
‘At the end of the exam, there was a completely surreal incident during the test,’ says Marie*, a sixth-year medical student. ‘While there were still several students there, someone took the microphone from the main amphitheatre lecture hall and broadcast shouts, insults and religious prayers for about five minutes.’
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Marie told LyonMag: “I didn’t understand what they were saying, it wasn’t in French. A friend who understands Arabic told us that they were prayers. I only understood that Allah Akbar was repeated several times. Let’s not kid ourselves, it caused misunderstanding and fear, no one understood what was going on. Many thought it was an attack.”
According to the same witness, ‘the faculty explained to us that individuals had entered the premises’ before taking control of the lecture theatre microphone.