Dear all of you,
Paris and Saint-Denis were hit Friday night by several simultaneous terrorist attacks. These attacks targeted places of entertainment, conviviality and leisure.
By striking the Bataclan, a cultural institution, its staff, the artists who performed there and their public, as well as its residents, it is to our common sense and our republican values that the terrorists have attacked with barbarism.
As early as Saturday morning, I convened a crisis unit at the Ministry to ensure the safety of staff and the public of our institutions and services. In particular, I decided that the public cultural institutions of Ile-de-France would remain closed on Saturday 14 and Sunday 15 November.
The measures allowing to reopen our establishments and services from next week will be stopped, in compliance with the Vigipirate plan and the instructions given by the Ministry of the Interior. Today, Sunday, November 15, I am convening the main officials of the Ministry and its public institutions to examine the measures taken to ensure the safety of the staff, the public, the buildings and the property of the institutions, services and institutions under my authority. I asked the General Secretariat to convene on Monday morning the staff representatives in the Committee on Health, Safety and Extraordinary Ministerial Working Conditions.
Monday at noon, I invite all staff of the Ministry of Culture and Communication to join in the national gathering that will be organized in all of our institutions and services.
In the face of these terrorist attacks, I call on all of you to show unity and solidarity. This is the best response that the Republic, the Ministry of Culture and Communication and its agents can provide to those who threaten us. Together, in the name of the values of openness and freedom that Culture and our Ministry bear, we will resist.
Fleur Pellerin