The young girl suspected of having slapped her teacher who asked her to remove her veil in a high school in Tourcoing will finally be judged next December.
The student suspected of having slapped a teacher at her high school in Tourcoing (North) on Monday who asked her to remove the veil she had just put on when leaving the Sévigné establishment, obtained an extension on Wednesday before being tried, and will appear on December 11.
“I am sorry for the blows I may have given this teacher and I hope that it goes well”declared the young girl, black jacket over white T-shirt, hair in a bun, during the immediate appearance hearing during which she requested and obtained this delay.
“A procedure guided by public opinion”
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.
“Teaching staff and many other professional bodies are always victims of violence whenever we want to enforce a rule of law, principles”lamented his lawyer, Eric Cattelin-Denu, to the journalists present.
Classes, suspended on Tuesday, were also canceled on Wednesday to allow “a time of exchange and work” for the staff, indicated the rectorate.
“Blows, threats and shoves”
According to initial investigations, the teacher asked the student “to remove one’s religious veil, before being subjected to insulting remarks”the prosecution indicated on Tuesday.
The teacher then “opposed to his leaving the establishment in order to obtain his identity” and the student then carried “a slap to 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 defies the“secular school” et “the Republic”had indicated to the National Assembly that he had requested “very firm disciplinary sanctions” against the student.
A handful of students gathered in front of the school at midday, including a friend of the girl who described the situation as“injustice”considering that putting a veil back on before having completely left the establishment was “usual”.
