“It's stratospheric”: newly appointed Minister of Education Anne Genetet is already making headlines for her past

Barely appointed Minister of Education, Anne Genetet is already making headlines. MP Sandrine Rousseau denounces the past of the sixty-year-old when she lived in Singapore.

Minister of Education for only a few days, Anne Genetet is already the target of criticism from some Internet users who have had fun digging into her past. On social networks, the latter have found Facebook posts from a group for French people based in Singapore, indicates La Dépêche du Midi.From 2013 to 2015, the new minister offered cooking lessons for “helpers”, domestic workers who accompany French expatriates in their daily lives. She then sold courses to cook “summer terrines”, “breakfast breads” or even "verrines of Saint-Jacques".

"She worked with people in great distress"

But the discoveries don't stop there. Also during her stay in Singapore, Anne Genetet created her site, Help Agency, where she gave advice on how to recruit your "helper". “Don't hire a maid who has already worked for Westerners, she might be more demanding and refuse to follow your instructions”, she advised at the time, according to L'Humanité. On this site, she even explains that one should avoid "emotion and compassion" with these helpers.

Revelations that made Sandrine Rousseau react, who exclaimed: “it's stratospheric” on her X account. “Anne Genetet, Minister of Education, concocts recipes so that Singaporean domestic workers serve French expatriates properly”, explains the environmentalist while sharing an article from Le Nouvel Obs published in 2014: “In Singapore, domestic workers treated like merchandise”.

According to Le Parisien, the entourage of the Minister of Education is already irritated by this first controversy, and recalls that, during her years in Singapore, Anne Genetet was on the contrary involved in two associations helping migrant workers. “She worked with people in great distress, very often mistreated workers”.