On October 16, 2020, France was shocked over the beheading of a teacher named Samuel Paty, after he was accused of showing caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad to his pupils in class. Two years later, another schoolteacher has been anonymously threatened with beheading in a letter sent to his school. The letter also attacks the teacher for being a Jew.
The below article from today's Le Figaro is translated by Fousesquawk.
"We're going to make him a Samuel Paty": A history-geography teacher threatened with death in Essonne
By Guillaume Poingt
Posted 10 hours ago, updated 10 hours ago
Caption: A history-geography professor of the Georges-Brassens High School d'Evry-Courcouronnes (Essone) has been targeted by death threats in an anonymous letter. A police car.
An anonymous letter was delivered to the Georges-Brassens High School in Evry-Courcouronnes on Monday, October 10. The teacher was also the object of anti-Semitic remarks in the letter. An investigation is in progress.
A professor of history-geography at the Georges-Brassens High School in Evry-Courcouronnes in Essone has been targeted with death threats and anti-Semitic insults in an anonymous letter delivered to the (school) on Monday, October 10, Le Figaro learned from the public prosecutor's office of Evry, confirming a report by CNews. The prosecutor's office informs us that an investigation has been opened for "death threats directed at a public service employee," with aggravating circumstances pertaining to religion.
"The dirty Jew should stop being sly," "We will make a Samuel Paty out of him and his father, the old Zionist rabbi," and further, "We don't want the Jews in the high schools, stay in your synagogues," we can read in the letter, revealed by CNews.
The teacher, who filed a complaint, was placed under police surveillance. "This is very violent, it touches me personally in my private identity, it touches me as a professor because there is the name of my colleague (Paty), it causes me anxiety.... I am determined to return to teaching, but there will be a before and after," he confided to our (news) colleagues.
These threats come as teachers and students prepare to honor the memory of Samuel Paty within the context of the revival of attacks against school secularism. On October 16, 2020, Samuel Paty, a 47-year-old professor of history-geography, was beheaded near his school, Bois-d'Aulne Middle School in Conflans-Saint-Honorine (Yvelines). His killer, Abdoulakh Anzorov, an 18-year-old Russian refugee of Chechen origin, accused him of having shown caricatures of (Prophet) Mohammad) to his pupils.
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