The young girl who slapped her teacher, in a high school in Tourcoing, for asking her to remove her veil appeared this Wednesday. The opportunity to hear his version of the facts for the first time. It was a young girl, obviously a little lost, who presented herself in the accused box.
“I hope I can go home tonight.”
Brown hair pulled back, a little bun, she glances into the room where her loved ones are and confirms, to the answers of the president of the court, that she does not contest the beatings carried out on the professor Monday evening, but she denies having made death threats. “I hope I can go home tonight,” she said. “I’m sorry for the blows I may have caused, I hope it goes well.”
Low profile therefore for this student who will not say more. Her lawyer, Ossama Dahmane, is satisfied to be able to prepare his client’s defense: “This is a young girl who should never have been the subject of an immediate appearance. It is a procedure, I remind you, only for people who have a criminal record This is not her case, it is an extremely violent case for her, because once again, all this media pressure should never have taken place. in December to prepare for his hearing.
The judicial control to which young Warda is therefore subject prohibits her from coming to high school and coming into contact with the teacher. An injured and still traumatized woman, according to her lawyer Éric Cattelin-Denu: “We are on a three-day ITT. She is marked on the face and legs because she was kicked. Psychologically, she is deeply shocked But now, we no longer respect teachers, we no longer obey them. That’s what’s abnormal.”
This Thursday, the Minister of National Education will be at the Sévigné high school in Tourcoing to provide support to the educational community, while classes should theoretically resume normally.
