The man, who was arrested in Clermont-Ferrand, has been released and will stand trial in October for “threatening to intimidate a person exercising a public function,” city prosecutor Dominique Pismay said.
A father who was arrested today in central France after threatening to kill a high school principal after he barred a female student from entering school wearing an abaya, a garment now banned in the country’s schools, will go on trial at the end of October in the name of secularism. state.
The man, who was arrested in Clermont-Ferrand, has been released and will stand trial in October for “threatening to intimidate a person exercising a public function,” city prosecutor Dominique Pismay said.
Based on the complaints, the student’s father “threatened to strangle the high school principal, but he denies saying such a thing,” he explained.
On Thursday morning, a student dressed in an abaya went to the Ambroise-Brissiere high school in Clermont-Ferrand but was denied entry when she refused to remove the garment. A short time later, her father called the high school and spoke to two staff members in succession, to whom he allegedly made threats against the high school principal.
“These are shocking threats. Yesterday I spoke by phone with the high school principal, I assured him that he has the full support, mine, the government, the state and, more broadly, I believe, our fellow citizens, in the face of these unacceptable and uncharacteristic threats”, said the Minister of Education Gabriel today Atal, during the inauguration of another high school, near Lyon.
The high school principal will receive police and judicial protection for his safety.
Death threats against teachers are being taken with utmost seriousness in France after the late 2020 murder of history and geography teacher Samuel Petit by an 18-year-old Chechen jihadist who accused him of showing a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad in class.
On August 27, Gabriel Atal announced that female students are prohibited from wearing abayas in their school. Yesterday Thursday the Council of State upheld the ban, deeming the abaya, a long and loose dress that covers the entire body, to be worn for religious reasons, which is banned in French schools.
On Monday, at the start of the school year, about 300 female students showed up at their schools wearing abayas and 67 of them refused to change clothes, according to the education ministry.
Source :Skai
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