“I am sorry for the blows that I may have given this teacher and I hope that it will go well,” declared the young girl, black jacket over white T-shirt, hair in a bun, during the hearing immediate appearance during which she requested and obtained this delay.
The 18-year-old high school student, a final year student in professional hospitality professions, will be judged for violence followed by an ITT of less than eight days and threatening to kill a person responsible for a public service mission. She was placed under judicial control with a ban on making contact with the victim and appearing at her home or near the school.
The president indicated that the high school student did not deny having hit the teacher but disputed the death threats.
The young girl’s lawyer, Ossama Dahmane, estimated at the hearing that her place was not in immediate appearance, emphasizing that she had no criminal record. He denounced “a procedure guided by public opinion”.
The teacher was not present at the hearing.
A disciplinary council announced
“Teachers and many other professional bodies are always victims of violence whenever we want to enforce a rule of law, principles,” his lawyer, Eric Cattelin-Denu, lamented to the journalists present.
Classes, suspended on Tuesday, were also canceled on Wednesday to allow “time for discussion and work” for staff, the rectorate said.
According to initial investigations, the teacher asked the student “to remove her religious veil, before being subjected to insulting remarks”, the prosecution indicated on Tuesday.
The teacher then “opposed his leaving the establishment in order to obtain his identity” and the student then “slapped the teacher, who returned it”. “Several blows, threats and shoving followed,” according to the same source.
The teacher filed a complaint. A disciplinary council is also planned.
Tuesday, the Minister of National Education, Anne Genetet, pointing out an act which challenges the “secular school” and “the Republic”, indicated to the National Assembly that she had requested “very firm disciplinary sanctions” against the student .
In a press release issued on Wednesday, the union representatives of the high school’s educational teams provide their support for their colleague who is a victim of violence but highlight an “uncontrollable and biased excess” of the media, social networks and politicians.
Monday’s events “are part of a series of five cases of physical attacks against female teachers, which have occurred in recent weeks in different contexts”, they explain, stressing that “the question of secularism only arose in only one of them.
Removal of hours, unfilled teaching positions, lack of nurses, “successive deteriorations in our working conditions (…) prevent us from preventing these difficulties, as we had always done before they transformed into violence,” they write, estimating that this situation creates tensions among students and staff.
A handful of students gathered in front of the high school at midday, including a friend of the young girl who described the situation as “unjust”, believing that putting a veil back on before having completely left the The establishment was “usual”.
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