The young woman, who allegedly struck this teacher numerous times, then fled, before being arrested and placed in police custody on Monday evening.
A teenager from the Sévigné high school in Tourcoing (North) was placed in police custody on Monday evening after a violent altercation with a teacher who asked her to remove her veil, we learned. Le Figaro from concordant sources.
The high school student, an adult and unknown to the police, was still in the courtyard of the establishment when this medico-social technical science teacher asked her to remove the veil she was wearing, indicates a police source. Disregarding the injunction, the young woman continued on her way, followed by the teacher, before turning around to shove her, then slap her.
Temporarily excluded
Shocked, the teacher then responds with a slap too. The altercation then took a more violent turn. According to this police source, the teenager struck the teacher numerous times before fleeing.
After the victim filed a complaint, the high school student was arrested around 6:30 p.m. Monday and placed in police custody. While the investigation focuses on using the establishment’s video surveillance images, the management of the establishment has taken a precautionary measure of temporary exclusion concerning the young woman, pending her disciplinary council.
Condemning an attack “unacceptable”the Minister of National Education, Anne Genetet, specified on her X account that she had requested that “very firm disciplinary sanctions be imposed given the seriousness of the facts”. “A mobile security team” was deployed in front of the high school this morning, she adds. And the classes were canceled, the teachers having exercised their right of withdrawal, according to The Voice of the North.
For his part, the former Minister of the Interior and elected official from Tourcoing Gérald Darmanin, for his part, reacted on his X account, this October 8, by presenting “all his support” to the stricken teacher, “while she was simply upholding secularism”. “Everyone must support our teachers and condemn this violence against the Republic itself”he concludes.
