Question 15996 — French people abroad

Summary

Mr. Hadrien Clouet draws the attention of the Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs to the crisis of governance and the risks of real estate predation which threaten the Louis-Pasteur French high school in Bogota, where a small group is trying to seize the land to the detriment of the students, their parents and the educational staff. Funded to the tune of 10 million euros per year by the French state, this establishment is hostage to a council of administration whose opacity and lack of representativeness are notorious. This council, operating in isolation, represents only a tiny part of the thousands of families in the educational community. For several years, this restricted group systematically obstructed the control of the AEFE, refusing any effective voting rights to the embassy or to elected consular officials on the structuring acts of the establishment. This lock is carried out both on the financial management of budgetary decisions, the setting of tuition rates or the signing of contracts with external service providers, audit firms or legal advisers, as well as on the human management of decisions relating to the recruitment, evaluation or dismissal of management and supervisory staff, and registration or exclusion procedures. For example, none of the audits conducted by a private practice was not communicated to parents. The situation is all the more alarming as the high school support association, namely the APA, saw its legal personality suspended from March 4 to July 4, 2026 by the inspection and vigilance directorate of the Colombian Ministry of Education for lack of financial transparency. However, its leaders claimed the opposite with families in order to illegally collect contributions and to continue a now fictitious direction. Added to this are irregularities, since the vice-president of the board of directors notified the dismissal of the operational director, which is not within his competence. Finally, several members of the board of directors carry out political poisoning operations at the request of the extreme right, for example by criticizing school programs and methods educational in the name of reactionary principles, defaming the very high level personnel who work on site. The locking of governance is not disconnected from heritage aims. The land occupied by the high school constitutes a real land windfall with high speculative value, located in the most expensive district in the country. A real estate complex project including residential towers and commercial premises on the spaces of recreation was actively pushed by the council, in defiance of the educational mission. This project was only slowed down by the opposition of the outgoing rector, consequently the victim of a campaign of slander, to whom the MP gives his full support. Links of interest are documented between certain directors and American investment funds, notably Ashmore, whose strategy of breaking with the French convention aims to privatize school assets. This scenario is a carbon copy of the disastrous precedent of the French high school in Mexico, where the end of the agreement allowed private dispossession to the detriment of families. Indeed, faced with these accusations and others made by the board of directors against Rector Prieto and brought to the attention of his superiors in France through written communications, 6AM W of Caracol was able to establish that legal proceedings have already been initiated both in Colombia and in France, accusing the members of the council of attacks on the honor and reputation of Rector Prieto. In addition, he learned that the prosecutor at the Paris court has already agreed to initiate proceedings for defamation against the members of the council. To impose this trajectory, unacceptable methods of intimidation were denounced by parents, including serious physical threats against their children (“something will happen to the little girl on the stairs”) by anonymous calls to force them to silence. One of the mothers concerned denounced a member of the board of directors whose voice she claims to have recognized. Ultimately, the board of directors provided no support to the victims of these misdeeds. If an agreement has been announced by the ministerial services for the maintaining the agreement, the content of the new statutes remains unknown to the educational community. The MP asks him to support the proceedings initiated by the rector for defamation against the far-right members who sit on the board of directors. He also asks him - to enable the necessary unlocking of the institution - how he intends to impose rules of democratic transparency and a real representativeness of parents, whether it will follow up on the request for a general assembly required by a petition signed by more than 800 parents or staff, how it will prevent any conflict of interest by removing from management individuals linked to private financial structures interested in the assets of the school, how it will ensure the right of voting and veto of the French embassy on all budgetary decisions and strategic real estate assets, and what binding legal guarantees will be included in the new statutes to ensure the absolute inalienability of the land and school infrastructures in order to protect them from any predation by pension funds like Ashmore, the deputy finally pleading for the passage of the establishment into direct management in order to secure this common good and to extract French education from the logic mercantile.

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