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A few more details/rant thing:

The Baccalauréat exam is still going on, and only some of the students signed that petition (so only a part is stupid [again, it is my opinion]).
In my opinion (emphasis on this), those students are crybabies that can't (or hardly) think by themselves. The problem was that they didn't know that Manhattan was not a city but a part of New York. Even if the second text could help understand what Manhattan was.

The same people would probably make fun of US people who don't know Europe's geography.

Last year, it was in literature, about "Le Tigre bleu de l'Euphrate" (the blue tiger of the Euphrates). Some students did not know that the "Tigre" was a river and that the "Tigre bleu" wasn't a literal thing. So they went full crybaby two years in a row.

If that was only that, it'd almost be amusing. But they have no idea of what's waiting for them next year. Plus, that exam is easy, except if you're not where you should be (like, doing sciences while you're a literature person and vice-versa), or that you have a panic/stress attack. AND they have only one exam a day over two weeks while a few years ago it was still two exams a day over a single week. So, yeah I am kind of baffled.

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First lawsuit is because Charlie Hebdo, after January 2015's attacks may have promised to give some funds to the family of the killed people and didn't do it. However, I do not remember that part precisely, so this must be considered with caution.
Second lawsuit is following Paris' attacks in November.

Even though I do understand the process, there is still one thing that will always bug me: at what point is it resentment and the search of someone to blame for the death of a beloved one and at what point it is a dig for money and a complete disrespect of the dead (not that they'd care but this still sounds a bit... Opportunistic in my opinion, to say the least)?

I am not in anyone's head so I will never have an answer. Plus, even those people may not be perfectly honest with themselves. Let's keep it a mystery, or a personal opinion.

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