The conflict would have pushed him to send threatening letters, including one accompanied by a photo of Samuel Paty.
A craftsman, suspected of having threatened with death a couple of teachers from the Aix-Marseille academy, confessed on Tuesday, Le Parisien learned, confirming information from Europe 1.
The suspect was in conflict with the couple of teachers for defects observed during work in their home.
The man, born in 1987, has no known link with religious radicalization, we learn from a police source.
However, it is known from the police files for a degradation case committed in 2011.
The investigation concerning him had started in mid-September, the month during which the two teachers had received a photo of Samuel Paty by mail, then a letter of death threats, explained the prosecutor of the Republic of Marseille Dominique Laurens in a press release issued Monday.
A safety device for the couple
On October 16, one year to the day after the assassination of Samuel Paty by a young man of 18 who accused the history and geography teacher of Yvelines of having shown in class caricatures of Muhammad, the couple of teachers received a new letter of death threats, specifies the Marseille prosecutor's office.
Monday, the prosecutor had however specified "that no element" made it possible to connect these threats of death "to a course given by one of the teachers".
In response to these new threats, a security system has been put in place by the police.
The couple “were immediately taken care of by the relations and human resources department of the Aix-Marseille academy.
The latter has supported teachers in the search for solutions allowing them to best protect them, ”the academy said.
The rector Bernard Beignier and the Minister of National Education, Jean-Michel Blanquer, have also condemned "with the greatest firmness these threats and assure the teachers of their full support".
"No threat or aggression, physical or verbal, against them can be tolerated," insisted the academy.