This Paris school head had been accused of violence by a BTS student whom he had asked to remove her veil at the end of February. After that, he received several threats on social networks.
:quality(50)/2023/07/07/64a7df4c5fe71_placeholder-36b69ec8.png)
Published
Reading time: 1 min
:quality(50)/2024/10/02/maxnewsspecial835967-66fcd58fa7043319403572.jpg)
A 27-year-old man is on trial on Wednesday October 2 for having threatened to kill the principal of the Maurice-Ravel high school in Paris, now retired. This head of school had been accused of violence by a BTS student whom he had asked to remove her veil at the end of February. After that, he received several threats on social networks, including this message from the young man on trial today for having called for him to “burn alive”. These threats led the principal to leave his position at the end of March.
“Even today” this 64 year old man, “hesitates when he goes out and looks suspiciously to see if he is possibly threatened”his lawyer, President Francis Lec, told franceinfo on Wednesday. Today, the principal wants above all to prevent other teachers from being subjected to these threats, explains his lawyer. “He wants justice to hear the principals and teachers who are threatened. This is what he is waiting for: to reconcile justice with the teaching world,” insists the lawyer.
In mid-March, another Internet user was tried in Calvados for having threatened the same principal, but the courts exonerated him. The prosecution appealed.