the Paris prosecutor's office appeals the conviction

INFO BFMTV. After the man who had threatened to kill the headmaster of the Ravel high school was sentenced to a 60-day fine of 10 euros each and a citizenship training course, the Paris prosecutor's office appealed.

The Paris prosecutor's office, which had requested a one-year suspended prison sentence for the man who had threatened to kill the principal of the Parisian high school Maurice Ravel, appealed the conviction pronounced by the Paris criminal court, learned from BFMTV this Wednesday, November 20.

On Monday, November 18, he was sentenced to a 60-day fine of 10 euros each and a citizenship training course after threats following an altercation with a student refusing to remove her Islamic veil.

A judgment which “trivializes hate speech”

At the end of the hearing, the principal's counsel, Me Francis Lec, denounced a “stunning judgment”. “It trivializes hate speech against school leaders who are threatened with death in the exercise of their duties,” he said in a press release.

For his part, the principal admitted to being shaken, in the middle of the trial for the assassination against Samuel Paty. “Each trial brings everything back to the table, it’s not easy.”

The Paris prosecutor's office, contacted by BFMTV, highlights the fact that yesterday, in immediate appearance, a man prosecuted for the same offense, after posting a tweet inviting the murder of a teacher from Montreuil, was sentenced to one year in prison. prison and a citizenship course.

“We must burn him alive, this dog”

The case dates back to February 28. The principal had had an altercation with an adult student, whom he had just asked to remove her veil within the school grounds.

The next day, several death threats were published online, including that of AA, the 27-year-old young man on trial in Paris, who wrote on his X account: “It's crazy. You have to burn him alive, this dog.”

The complaint for violence filed by the student involved in the altercation was dismissed at the end of March for “insufficiently characterized offense”.