With a white scarf covering her hair, she walks before her judges. At an immediate appearance hearing on October 9, Warda H., 18, appeared bareheaded to request more time to prepare her defense. Two months later, before the Lille court, she had to answer for violence and death threats against a person responsible for a public service mission, in this case a teacher at the Sévigné high school where she attended school in Tourcoing (North).
It was a Monday, around the time classes ended. Warda H. is getting ready to go out to catch her bus. She goes through the toilet and puts her veil back on. She is still in high school, a teacher asks her to remove it. From there, two versions diverge.
The professor claims to have been pushed, slapped, and threatened with death. Warda H. replies: “I didn’t hit her in the face. She was the one who slapped me. I hit him in the foot. I shouldn't have. When I got angry, I panicked. » She will also say: “Before she slapped me, I hadn't done anything. Except rushing her because I had to go out. » A few meters from Warda H., in return, the teacher, who recognized a slap “reflex”shakes his head. Each has its own truth.
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But, above all, we hear that it is not so much the wearing of the veil in a high school which is at stake in this trial, since the young girl removed it when she was asked, but the violence which followed this reminder of the law. The broadcast of the surveillance video confirms the teacher's version. Without sound, however, it is not possible to hear what the young girl said or not. Death threats? The accusation is formal, Warda H. made it clear: “If you take a picture of me, I’ll burn you!” » Two months later, the final year student is not giving up: “I didn’t threaten her. No. » « I didn't think “, she agrees. “Clearly, I should have given him my identity,” as the teacher asked him.
For the teacher, the voice betraying her emotion, “They made me an Islamophobe!” “, while she assures him, she has “truly love [ses] students “. Of Warda H., she says: “She brought me to my knees, she denigrated me. » She talks about « rumors » which followed, “death threats against me, my children; we read on social media that we were going to “cry tears of blood””says the one who says “still shaken”.
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