Tribute to Samuel Paty: a man in custody after threatening direction of a college

The school had punished his son for screaming “Allah Akbar!” During the minute of silence organized in tribute to the murdered teacher.

Le Monde with AFP

A man has been custody since Monday, October 18 for having threatened the staff of a college of Valencia (Drôme), where his son had scrutinized a warning after shouting “Allah Akbar!” Tribute to Samuel Paty, depending on the floor.

The initial facts took place on Friday, October 15 at the minute of organized silence in the establishment. The 11-year-old student enrolled in a class of 5 e , “was led to reflect on his behavior” and “has proposed himself to apologize to his teacher and his Comrades “, says the rectorate of the Academy of Grenoble in a statement. The teenager, however, was notified of a warning and his father was warned by phone. During the interview, he “congratulated his son’s behavior,” and then injuned and threatened the college direction, according to the floor.

Monday morning, the man, a 43-year-old security officer, penetrated the establishment and reiterated his words “even more lively, going so far as to pronounce death threats”, according to the rectorate . The police were then alerted, and the pupil’s parent arrested.

A hundred incidents identified

In a search at home, the investigators discovered “a Bible, two books Salafist, a Nunchaku, a sword, a rod and the sum of 11,500 euros”, according to the prosecutor of The Republic in Valencia, Alex Perrin, cited in a statement.

The custody of the Father, known for police and justice services for ancient facts, has been extended and psychiatric expertise is underway.

Millions of students in France celebrated Friday the memory of the teacher – stabbed and decapitated on October 16, 2020 for showing caricatures of Muhammad to his students during a course on freedom of expression – by a minute of silence. A hundred incidents during these tributes were identified by the Ministry of National Education.

In questioned Tuesday on that of Valencia, on the margin of the launch in Paris of its training plan for secularism for teachers, the Minister of National Education, Jean-Michel Blanquer, replied that he did not consider it None as “anodin” and that all were followed. “We have now, with the Ministry of the Interior, cells for the phenomena of radicalization. It makes it possible to see what is happening with a family like this” and to decide “social and criminal measures, possibly, possibly, possibly, possibly, possibly to take, so as not to leave phenomena as well, “said the minister,

/Media reports.