a man sentenced to 60 days fine and an obligation to undergo citizenship training

The 27-year-old man was on trial for having called to “burn alive” the head of the Parisian establishment, who had been accused in early March of violence by a student after asking her to remove her veil.

A 27-year-old man tried at the Paris criminal court for having threatened to kill the principal of the Maurice Ravel high school in Paris was sentenced to a 60-day sentence, a fine of ten euros each and an obligation to complete a five-day citizenship training course, observed a franceinfo journalist at the hearing, Monday November 18. The principal who had been threatened, notably by this man, is now retired. The convicted man will not have any entry on his criminal record.

“I heard his apology again, that’s good, and he was convicted, so that’s good too,” reacted the principal present to the statement of the judgment. “Each trial brings everything back to the table so it’s not easy to live with”he added. Another man was in fact tried in Bourg-en-Bresse (Ain), also suspected of having called for violence against the principal. Another trial also took place in Calvados, the defendant was exonerated, the prosecution appealed.

The judgment, which was reserved, does not follow the requisitions of the prosecution which had requested a one-year suspended prison sentence and an internship at the Shoah memorial. This man was prosecuted for the offense of public provocation without effect to commit intentional harm to life.

The head of the school had been accused of violence by a BTS student whom he had asked to remove her veil at the end of February. After that, he received several threats on social networks, including this message from the young man on trial today for having called for “burn alive“These threats led the principal to leave his position at the end of March.