These three teenagers aged 15 and 16 are suspected of having made death threats to one of their teachers and his son via a Snapchat group. They will be presented to a children's judge.
The affair deeply shocked the Marseille educational community, triggering the opening of a judicial investigation into death threats. Three young suspects have since been arrested and will be presented to a children's judge, we learned. Le Figaro from the Marseille public prosecutor's office.
These three teenagers, two boys and a girl aged 15 and 16, are suspected by the courts of having made threats against their teacher at the Rempart-Vinci high school located in the 7th arrondissement. As revealed by Le Figaro earlier this week, a screenshot from a Snapchat group called «Rampart 5» in reference to the name of the high school had been brought to the attention of the teacher.
On it, several individuals were projecting in particular “to bring down” the teacher and his son who attended the same high school in his final year. According to a source, one of the individuals had notably written that it was necessary to kill “the PD and his daron (sic)” et “throw the PD and his big joke in the trash (sic)”homophobic insults aimed at the young man, already violently mocked by several students at the establishment according to this source.
Judicial control and ban on returning to high school
The revelation of these elements had motivated the professor to file a complaint against “death threats in writing”. An investigation was quickly opened by the Marseille prosecutor's office, seeking to identify the author(s) of these threats as quickly as possible. Unsurprisingly, these came from several students in a class known to the teacher for having established a climate tinged with “racism, anti-Semitism, conspiracy and negationism”. According to his testimony, this BTS class (higher technician certificate) would be made up of several students “questioning the theory of evolution”.
The three identified students were arrested and brought this Friday before the juvenile prosecutor's office of the Marseille judicial court. They are now indicted for acts of “written death threat based on sexual orientation and written death threat against a person holding public authority”. They will be presented to a children's judge for a guilty hearing.
The prosecution requested placement under judicial supervision for one of the adolescents and a provisional judicial educational measure for the two others. Still according to these requisitions, the three students could be prohibited from going to the high school again and from coming into contact with the victims. The Aix-Marseille rectorate, which took the situation “very seriously”offered legal protection and psychological support to the professor targeted by the threats.
