A professor from Marseille filed a complaint last Monday after death threats on Snapchat against him and his son.
This Friday, the Marseille prosecutor’s office announced that three high school students, two boys and a girl aged 15 and 16, were arrested.
It took investigators very little time to find them. This Friday, November 29, the Marseille prosecutor’s office announced that three high school students were arrested as part of the investigation opened after death threats perpetrated on Snapchat against an English teacher at the Rempart-Vinci high school (7th district of the city), aged around fifty, and his son, attending final year in the same establishment.
Last Monday, the teacher filed a complaint against X and reported the facts to the authorities. According to Le Figaro (new window), who revealed this affair at the beginning of the week, the professor had seen a screenshot of a Snapchat group named “Rampart 5”, in reference to the name of the high school, on which at least one participant in the group proposed to “take him down” as well as his son.
In his complaint, the teacher stated that “a climate of racism, anti-Semitism, conspiracy and negationism within one of its classes”which had led him to react a few days earlier. An event reminiscent of the Samuel Paty affair (new window).
The three teenagers referred this Friday
The three adolescents, two boys and a girl aged 15 and 16, were referred today, for the purpose of being presented before the children’s judge for a guilty hearing, before the juvenile prosecutor’s office of the Marseille judicial court for acts qualified as a written death threat based on sexual orientation and a written death threat against a person holding public authority.
The prosecution requested placement under judicial supervision for one and a provisional judicial educational measure for the other two. In addition to criminal reparation modules within the framework of provisional educational measures, the requisitions include, for all three, a ban on going to the school, a ban on coming into contact with the victims and a ban on carrying a weapon.
Strong reactions
As of Monday, this affair had sparked strong reactions. “The academy rector takes this matter very seriously. The teacher filed a complaint and a report was made to the prosecutor by the high school principal,” had indicated to TF1/LCI the communications department of the rectorate, specifying that“A police investigation is underway.” “Legal protection and psychological support” were proposed to the teacher, added the rectorate.
“At the school of the Republic, no threat, no attack against a teacher is acceptable,” had denounced in a press release the president of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region, Renaud Muselier, saying to stand “alongside teachers, the last defense against conspiracy, racism and anti-Semitism.
