2024-02-21 14:51:57
– A high school student arrested for threatening to slit his teacher’s throat
The 16-year-old student was taken into police custody after threats were posted online. An act which revives the memory of the assassination of two teachers in 2020 and 2023.
Published today at 3:51 p.m.
The teenager was arrested Tuesday shortly after making threats against his teacher.
AFP
A high school student was arrested Tuesday in the north of France after threatening to slit the throat of his philosophy teacher, we learned on Wednesday from police sources, in a country which remains traumatized by the assassination of two teachers in 2020 and 2023 by radicalized young people.
This 16-year-old teenager, unknown to the justice system, made these threats on Monday to his comrades on a social network. It was then reported on the Pharos platform, a government site for reporting illegal content online.
He was arrested early Tuesday morning and then placed in police custody. A police force was then set up around his establishment in Armentières, the Paul Hazard high school. The teacher concerned filed a complaint.
Two assassinations in memory
In the Samuel Paty affair, which caused an international shockwave, the 47-year-old history and geography teacher was stabbed then beheaded in October 2020 near his college in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, in the Paris region, by Abdoullakh Anzorov, a Russian refugee of Chechen origin shot dead by the police.
The young 18-year-old radicalized Islamist criticized the professor for showing caricatures of Mohammed during a lesson on freedom of expression.
At the end of 2023, another professor, Dominique Bernard, was also stabbed to death, in the north of the country, by a radicalized former student, an Islamist attack which led the government to strengthen the country’s security.
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