When Patrick D., history and geography teacher, launched into a worrying diatribe on the terrorist threat facing his students, a knife in his hand, the context was very sensitive, on this Saturday of the holidays at Claude high school Monet of Le Havre. It was not a school day like any other since a few days before October 21, 2023, the entire country had just experienced a vibrant public tribute to Dominique Bernard. The teacher had been stabbed by Islamist terrorist Mohamed Mogouchkov a week before, while trying to protect his students at his high school in Arras.
Six months later, the man who appears for
“psychological violence with a weapon”
and
“prohibited carrying of a weapon”
before the Le Havre criminal court, this March 29, assures him: he never had the intention of doing the less harm to the 30 first year students who looked at him with wide eyes that morning, when the teacher, under pressure, broke down, for many minutes, in front of them. After…
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