Italian counterterrorism investigation into supervisor of a French high school in Rome

A supervisor from the French Châteaubriand high school in Rome is the subject of an Italian counterterrorism investigation after publishing messages on the networks

for the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, we learned on Friday from sources concordant.

The man of Algerian nationality has worked for around ten years as a supervisor in this high school where around 1,500 students from kindergarten to final year are educated.

According to the Roman newspaper

, investigators from Digos, the Italian police department responsible for the fight against terrorism, carried out a search of his home which did not find any weapons, and the man said he never had criminal intentions.

He published on a social network, and kept in his mobile phone, photos of the leader of Hamas, considered a terrorist group by the EU but also by many countries including the United States, Canada and Israel.

Photos of victims in Gaza

He also published photos of children from Gaza killed during military operations by the Israeli army in the Palestinian territory since October 7, when the Islamist movement launched a bloody attack on Israeli territory.

Certain publications are similar to

, indicated an official source, specifying that in the state of the investigation the man seems

and the hypothesis of a network does not exist. is not privileged.

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In a

, the school evokes

, including the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen, says the daily Independente.

after having been suspended as a precautionary measure, he adds.

In an interview with Independente

the man explained that for him

.

,” he argued.

He says he has been a political refugee

and has never been in trouble with the law.

,” he told the

.

He was left free.