In Belgium, teachers’ concern about the rise of Islamism and conspiracy at school

LETTER FROM BENELUX

A young graduate in history, Alexandre L. is appointed in 2022 to a so-called “difficult” school in Wallonia. He would later describe it as « a sick person ». He will discover a screaming student there who he “did too much coke”. A young girl, whom the teacher had excluded during a heated discussion on the Koran, escapes any sanction thanks to her father, who dictates his orders to the management. A boy who tried to hit “to death” her classmate after calling her a “slut” is not punished, but simply moved to another class.

This is another event that will really scare the young teacher. One day, some students asked him what “this caricature which has caused so much discussion”. He draws on the board, and immediately erases, a little face with a bomb on its head. Three weeks later, a kid calls out to him: “Sir, it seems that you drew the Prophet. » The young professor panics, denies, resigns. The image of the drawing went around the school and “the images which assail the teacher are those of the assassination of Samuel Paty”tell Laurence D’Hondt and Jean-Pierre Martin.

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