The principal of a high school in the 20th arrondissement of Paris was threatened with death on social networks after asking a student to remove her veil,
Le Figaro
learned from the Paris academy, confirming information from Europe 1 .
The altercation between the principal and the student took place this Wednesday at Maurice Ravel high school.
According to the Academy
, the incident was "taken up and redirected on social networks, generating defamatory remarks and threats."
The institution affirms that
“the situation is being monitored by the Rectorate and the police services to guarantee the safety of all students and staff of the establishment.”
Since the events, the “values of the Republic” unit
has been “mobilized to support the educational teams in order to reaffirm the principle of secularism and re-establish the reality of the facts
,” we add.