The Paris criminal court has handed down its judgment in the case of a principal threatened on social networks for having asked a Muslim student to remove her veil in the establishment.
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600 euros fine, an obligation to complete a five-day citizenship course. 3,000 euros for moral damage to the head of the establishment and 500 euros for procedural costs.
The Paris criminal court ultimately did not follow the prosecution’s requisitions, which had requested a one-year suspended prison sentence and an internship at the Shoah memorial.
The convicted person will not have any entry on his criminal record. The principal’s lawyer, Me Francis Lec, declared that this judgment was “incomprehensible given the seriousness of the facts.” “This is far too weak a sentence,” he reacted to AFP, who hopes that the prosecution will appeal.
The 27-year-old young man behind the threats in February 2024 was sent to court for “public provocation without effect to commit a willful attack on life“. He had posted a message in which he called for “burn alive” the principal of the establishment located in the east of the capital.
On February 28, the head of this school complex demanded that an adult Muslim student remove her veil while she was on the premises of the establishment. After these incidents, the principal had anticipated his retirement by a few months. This affair sparked a wave of indignation in France.
The student had, she filed a complaint for violence in the altercation. A complaint dismissed at the end of March for “insufficiently characterized offense”. “I deeply regret and ask for forgiveness“, the young woman told the court during her trial in October.
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