How can we talk about November 13 to younger generations?

Since the start of the school year, the MMT's teaching centre has put in place a number of initiatives to address with the school public the issue of terrorism and its effects on our society.

His head, Lancelot Arzel, organized, in conjunction with the Department of School Affairs (DASCO) of the Paris City Hall and the Academic Delegation to the Memory, History and Citizenship of Paris, a discussion with college students.

Back on this afternoon's discussion between three classes of 3rd and Arthur Dénouvelles, the Bataclan survivor and president of the Life for Paris association.

Held a few days after the ceremonies of tribute to the victims on 13 November 2015, this meeting had several objectives: to share the various memories of these attacks, especially at the level of Parisian neighbourhoods, to educate students on citizenship by reflecting on the post-attack society and living together; to make them reflect on the role of digital in the terrorist radicalisation of the last twenty years.

The students present, aged 4 or 5 at the time of the events, have only a partial knowledge of these events. To confront them with these memories, this workshop therefore began with the screening of excerpts from the documentary 13 November, the life after realized by Olivier Lemaire who followed, in 2016, the trajectories of several inhabitants of the neighbourhoods affected by the attacks and traumas, a number of which suffered.

This film fed the ensuing discussion with Arthur Dénouvelles. He was asked many questions, sometimes intimately, to which he answered delicately. Among the topics raised by college students we can remember: the status of a victim of an attack, the status of a memory smuggler, feelings of hatred, mental health, online misinformation and terrorist propaganda, or the central role of the V13 trial.

This meeting also resulted in two articles that you will find below:

"What does it feel like to see people die before your eyes?": college students facing a Bataclan survivor - Le Parisien

Attacks on November 13: College students face the duty of memory - Student