a teacher placed under police protection after being threatened with the same fate as Samuel Paty

The police are on surveillance in front of the high school ofEvry-Courcouronnes (Essonne)on the morning of Friday, October 14. The establishment has been in shock since an anonymous letter sent Monday 10 to a professor of history and geography. “We are going to make him a Samuel Paty to him and his father the old Zionist rabbi“, can we read there. Clearly, the teacher and his father are threatened with beheading. The anxiety is palpable among the students.

The teacher in his thirties filed a complaint and was placed under police protection, in front of his home in particular. He assures that he has not encountered any recent incident with students or parents, and specifies that his father is not a rabbi. Even if for the moment, no link has been established between these threats and a possible course on secularism or religions, the teachers’ unions regret that these themes remain complex, even risky to approach.

According to figures from the Ministry of Education, attacks on secularism are also on the rise in schools this year, in particular reports for wearing religious attire and accessories.