“A high school student is going to come and kill you”: a schoolgirl threatens to kill her teacher who had shown Charlie Hebdo caricatures

The events took place in a college in the Pays de Montbéliard on January 8. A history and geography teacher then shows his students caricatures from the newspaper Charlie Hebdo, the day after the 10th anniversary of the attacks perpetrated on the premises of the satirical newspaper, according to information from Republican East.

“A high school student is going to come and kill you”

During the lesson, a 13-year-old student stands out by saying that “it’s not okay to show caricatures.” Thursday January 16, eight days later, the same student returned to the teacher and told him that “a high school student is going to come and kill you because you showed caricatures”.

The professor immediately escalated the matter to his superiors who informed the public prosecutor, Paul-Édouard Lallois. “Proceedings were immediately opened for death threats and I asked that the student be questioned very quickly in police custody,” the prosecutor said. The teenager declared during her hearing that she had not “not directly threatened” and it was just one “joke”.

“No challenge to freedom of expression will be tolerated”

The young girl was thus temporarily excluded from the college, before going before a disciplinary council and was also placed on file, before having to appear before the prosecutor’s delegate. For the professor, heard by the prosecutor, he declared that for him “the threat was well constituted” and that the adolescent “played on words”.

The Minister of National Education, Higher Education and Research, Élisabeth Borne published a message of support for the professor on X. “No threats against teachers, no challenges to freedom of expression will be tolerated!” declares the minister.