A history and geography teacher at the Georges-Brassens high school in Évry-Courcouronnes in Essonne was targeted by death threats and anti-Semitic insults in an anonymous letter deposited Monday October 10 in the establishment, learned
Le Figaro
of the Evry prosecution, confirming information from
CNews
.
An investigation was opened for "
death threats against a person responsible for a public service mission
", with the aggravating circumstance of belonging to a religion, specifies the prosecution.
"
The dirty Jew must stop being clever
", "
We are going to make him a Samuel Paty to him and his father the old Zionist rabbi
" or even "
We don't want the Jews in high schools, stay in your synagogues
" , can we read in this letter unveiled by
CNews
.
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The teacher, who filed a complaint, was placed under police surveillance.
"It's very violent, it affects me personally in my private identity, it affects me as a teacher because there is the name of the colleague (...) it puts in a certain anguish (...) I am determined to come back to teach but there will be a before and an after”
, he confided to our colleagues.
These threats come as teachers and students prepare to honor the memory of Samuel Paty, in a context of renewed attacks on secularism at school.
On October 16, 2020, Samuel Paty, a 47-year-old history and geography professor, was beheaded near his college in Bois-d'Aulne, in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine in the Yvelines.
His murderer, Abdoulakh Anzorov - an 18-year-old Russian refugee of Chechen origin - accused him of having shown caricatures of Muhammad to his students.