The principal of the Notre Dame du Rocher college in Chambéry (Savoie), targeted by multiple death threats after the dissemination on the internet of photos showing the injured face of a teenage girl victim, according to the prosecution, of a fall within the ‘establishment, will file a complaint Tuesday for “incitement to hatred and violence”, learned Monday, December 20 France Bleu Pays de Savoie from his lawyer.
This complaint will be filed Tuesday afternoon with the prosecutor’s office in Chambéry, said Pierre Pérez, the lawyer for the principal of this private college. According to the lawyer, it will be accompanied by a “300 documents” which attest “hate messages, death threats, over the phone, and more”, of which the head of the establishment has been a victim for several days.
The facts happened on Wednesday December 15th. In a message posted on the internet, the mother of the teenager assures that her daughter, educated in 6th grade, was the victim of a racist attack, a thesis refuted by the prosecutor of the Republic of Chambéry on Sunday evening. According to the first elements of the investigation, the student, of Cameroonian origin, seriously injured her face by falling, alone, last Wednesday, in the courtyard of the college.
According to the lawyer for the principal of the college, the mother of the teenager posted on social networks the personal address of the head of the establishment, also deputy to the town hall of La Ravoire (Savoie). The 46-year-old has since been placed in “under the protection of the gendarmerie, day and night”.
“The teachers of the college have received hundreds of calls of death threats, coming from different countries, and not only from France (…) it is so serious that I file a complaint”, says the lawyer.
“All these malicious people, who made death threats, who left traces, we are going to hold them accountable, as has been done elsewhere”
Pierre Pérez, lawyer for the principal of the collegeto franceinfo
Sunday, December 19, the Minister of National Education, Jean-Michel Blanquer, asked the rector of Grenoble to open an internal investigation.