French father jailed for threatening to behead son’s teacher
The father also received a three-year ban on contacting the teacher or entering the school, and must complete a citizenship course after release.
- On Thursday, a French court sentenced a father to six months in prison for threatening to "cut off the head" of a 58-year-old teacher at her school in Fauga last week.
- The confrontation followed disciplinary action against the man's nine-year-old son, who had been moved to another class due to behavior. Fauga Mayor Jean-Marie Puig said the father waited for the teacher "outside the school and apparently threatened to cut off her head."
- Presiding Judge Fabrice Rives called the threats "extremely disturbing," noting they evoke events that "unfortunately, remained in the minds of all French people." The teacher's lawyer, Jocelyn Momasso-Momasso, said his client remains "traumatised" and on sick leave.
- French Education Minister Edouard Geffray said this case will trigger one of the first uses of a new decree protecting staff from a "significant risk" to their safety or health from a student's family member.
- The incident revives memories of Samuel Paty's 2020 murder in the Paris suburb of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine by an 18-year-old Chechen refugee. The father also faces a three-year ban on contacting the teacher or entering school premises.
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The case is symptomatic of the violence that French teachers are exposed to, and it brings back memories of Samuel Paty's murder.
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The beheading of Professor Samuel Paty at the doors of the school on October 16, 2020 at the hands of a jihadist left an indelible mark on French society. After his murder, thousands of people took to the streets to protest an act that many considered an attack on freedom of expression and the fundamental values of the Republic. Continue reading....
Abdelkader B., 47, was sentenced to six months in prison by a court in Toulouse, France, in a speedy trial on Thursday for threatening to behead his son's teacher. The incident took place last Friday at a primary school in the village of Le Fauga.
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