“The sanction handed down is a blow to National Education,” Minister Anne Genetet said this Tuesday on CNEWS, after the conviction of the author of the death threats against the principal of the Parisian high school Maurice Ravel.
The Minister of National Education, Anne Genetet, was the guest this Tuesday, November 19 of La Grande Interview on CNEWS. Following the sanction (a fine and a citizenship training course) for the author of death threats aimed at a principal, she denounced “a blow to National Education”.
This statement comes as two ex-college students testified this Monday before the special Paris Assize Court – which is judging eight adults involved – to varying degrees, in the death of Samuel Paty.
Thus, Anne Genetet wanted to send “a thought” for the professor’s family. “I believe that beyond his family, the educational community and society as a whole are waiting for justice to be done in this trial because a teacher is threatened, a head of establishment is threatened,” he said. -she added.
“We can talk about it”
In this context, the Paris criminal court on Monday sentenced the author of the death threats against the principal of the Parisian high school Maurice Ravel after an altercation with a student refusing to remove her veil, to a sentence of 60 days – fine of 10 euros each.
The next day, several death threats were published online, including that of AA, the 27-year-old young man on trial, who wrote on his X account: “This is crazy. “We have to burn him alive, this dog.”
As Minister of National Education, Anne Genetet thus assured that her “role is to act, it is to be able to give our teachers, our school heads, the essential protection, so we can talk about it.”
