A teenager of Afghan nationality, educated in a college in the center of Marseille, was indicted for apologizing for terrorism for remarks made during the tribute to Samuel Paty in class, said Thursday, November 5 the prosecutor of Marseille, Dominique Laurens.
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According to La Provence, this 14-year-old boy would have welcomed the attack on the professor of Conflans-Saint-Honorine, adding that he "
would have done the same
".
The teenager was placed under "
prejudicial supervised liberty
" - an educational process aimed at evaluating his evolution - with "
judicial measure of educational investigation
", entrusted to the judicial protection of youth, said the magistrate.
The prosecution had asked for his placement under judicial supervision with a ban on attending his college, the students in his class and the professor before whom he spoke.
Since the start of the school year on Monday, seven incidents have been traced to the Aix-Marseille rectorate.
Three were considered "
a justification for the terrorist act
" and were reported to the police, the others more "
of a misunderstanding
" of the situation, detailed the rector Bernard Beignier in La Provence Thursday.
Several similar investigations have been opened since the assassination of Samuel Paty in mid-October.
For example, a 16-year-old high school student was indicted in Vesoul for his comments on a social network.
In Poitiers, a 26-year-old Afghan asylum seeker has just been sentenced to 18 months in prison with a definitive ban on setting foot on French soil.
