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Overview
- On Thursday July 30, 2026 Éric Ciotti sent a letter to the minister of Éducation nationale proposing that every école, collège and lycée devote a few hours at the start of the school year to honour the sapeurs‑pompiers.
- Ciotti asks that teachers use photographs, videos and first‑hand testimonies from firefighters that would be validated by Education Ministry services before being shown to pupils.
- He presents the tribute as having three aims: to memorialise victims and responders, to teach civic duty and public service, and to raise awareness about protecting natural heritage.
- The idea received public praise from figures such as Eliot Deval who called it cross‑partisan, but the Education Ministry has not yet announced any decision or implementation plan.
- The proposal builds on this summer’s large fires — more than 42,000 hectares burned in Gironde and Landes and mass evacuations — and could affect recruitment for volunteer fire services and school civic programming if the ministry approves a national rollout.