“Discover the story of the student from the Maurice Ravel high school in Paris 20th, who breaks the silence on the actions of his principal. The media have often given a version far from reality, it is now their turn to express themselves. Let’s stay tuned to hear his version of the story
,” announces the Collective Against Islamophobia in Europe (CCIE) in the caption of one of its videos.
This testimony concerns the altercation between a principal and a student at the Maurice Ravel high school.
The events took place on February 29, in the 20th arrondissement of the capital.
According to the first elements of the investigation, the high school principal reminded three students of the obligation to remove their veils in the establishment
.
One of them then
“ignored”
the principal, causing an altercation.
Death threats
The young girl, an adult and studying in BTS, then filed a complaint for “violence which did not result in incapacity for work.”
The principal, for his part, decided to file a complaint for “act of intimidation against a person participating in the execution of a public service mission”.
The affair could have ended there if social networks had not taken advantage of it.
Since then, numerous death threats targeting the principal of the Maurice Ravel high school have been broadcast on the networks.
Information confirmed by the Academy which states that the event
“was taken up and diverted on social networks, generating defamatory remarks and threats”.
And the controversy continues.
This Friday, March 15, the Collective Against Islamophobia in Europe (CCIE) published a video where we can see the student in question talking about an
“attack”
on the part of the principal of the Maurice Ravel high school.
Video published on the website of the Collective Against Islamophobia in Europe.
Youtube Screenshot
“He arrived, he shouted at me (...) he said to me “take it off, take it off” (...). I didn't even have time to justify myself or say anything when he pushed me with his hand [sic] and gave me a violent blow to the arm
,” assures this young woman.
She adds that the professor would have
“delivered a blow”
to her .
She continues her story by condemning
“the media”
which, according to her,
“say anything”
:
“apparently, when I was at the meeting with my parents, I would have said that he would not have not hit, but I never said that.
They [the media Editor's note] don't tell the truth, and when I try to tell the truth, my version is distorted
.
Comments which seem to diverge from those made by the same young girl a few days earlier, when she was received by the Paris Academy.
“This student admitted that she was not slapped”
, indicated during a press briefing the director of the Paris Academy Valérie Baglin-Le Goff,
“the principal simply asked her to remove her veil .
And as she didn't hear him, he put a hand on her back (...).
But at no time was there violence such as could have been relayed by certain media
,” she insisted, alongside the Minister of Education Nicole Belloubet.
“Victim of Islamophobia”
The young girl's testimony, published yesterday, seems all the more problematic as it was posted online by the Collective Against Islamophobia in Europe (CCIE), whose ancestor is none other than the Collective Against Islamophobia. Islamophobia in France (CCIF).
Officially dissolved in December 2020, this collective
“consistently propagated Islamist propaganda”
said Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin at the time.
Its ideological proximity to the Muslim Brotherhood has been demonstrated many times, notably in investigations by Le
Figaro
.
Shortly before this dissolution, the members of the CCIF had created a similar association in Belgium, the so-called CCIE.
An association which claims to be non-profit, whose legal headquarters is located in Brussels, and which openly claims to be a non-governmental, apolitical,
"areligious"
, independent organization and financed solely by its members and donors.
According to the way the CCIE presents itself on its website, France would be threatened by an Islamophobic
“security drift”
.
In this sense, the collective proposes to provide
“victims of Islamophobia”
with legal and psychological support.
On March 5, the Minister of Education Nicole Belloubet deplored
“unacceptable attacks”
.
The death threats against the head of the establishment had pushed the Paris prosecutor's office to open an investigation and contact the national center for the fight against online hatred.