Overview
- Three Rassemblement National deputies — Julien Odoul, Laurent Jacobelli and Philippe Ballard — entered the Villetaneuse campus on November 26 without authorization while being filmed.
- The lawmakers said they went to verify claims from an October 17 Valeurs Actuelles report and posted videos from inside the buildings on their X accounts.
- Université Sorbonne Paris Nord and the association France Universités denounced the intrusion, citing legal requirements for access, filming permissions and respect for image rights.
- Higher Education Minister Philippe Baptiste reiterated that university leaders hold administrative police powers to ensure campus serenity and offered support to the USPN community.
- L’Humanité described the visit as targeting veiled students and framed the operation as a media staging, while reports noted no specific sanctions or Assembly measures announced so far.