The principal of the Maurice Ravel high school in Paris was the subject of death threats on social networks after an altercation with a student whom he asked to remove her veil.
From the left to the far right, political leaders deplored on Wednesday March 27 a “failure” in the face of the “Islamist movement”, after the departure of a Parisian high school principal who had been threatened with death following an altercation with a veiled student.
A month after the events, the principal of the Maurice-Ravel high school left his position. “For security reasons” according to a message sent Tuesday to teachers, students and parents, while the rectorate spoke of an “early departure” in retirement “in view of the events which have marked these last weeks”.
“We cannot accept it”
The head of the school was in fact the target of death threats on the internet since an altercation with an adult student who had refused to remove her veil on the school grounds.
“This government is incapable of protecting our schools”, reacted Marine Le Pen on X, judging that “the law against separatism supposed to bring Islamism to its knees was of no use”.
“This is what the ‘no wave’ leads to, this is where small cowardices and big renunciations lead us,” also commented the boss of senators LR Bruno Retailleau on the same social network. “We cannot accept it”, declared on France 2 the leader of the socialist deputies Boris Vallaud, believing that “it is a collective failure”.
“It is above all a defeat of the State” in the face of “the Islamist gangrene which is thriving”, added the head of the Reconquest list in the European elections, Marion Maréchal, on Sud Radio.
“An Islamist movement that wants to break the school of the Republic”
Also pointing out the “scourge of Islamism”, the LR mayor of Cannes David Lisnard denounced more broadly on France Inter a “decivilization which does a lot of harm” and made the link with “the attacks on elected officials and the custodians of public authority”.
“Authority is on the side of school heads and teachers and we must support this educational community,” said Renaissance MP Maud Bregeon, also accusing in the name of the majority “an Islamist movement which wants to break the school of the Republic”.
The principal of the Maurice-Ravel high school will be received this Wednesday afternoon by Prime Minister Gabriel Attal in Matignon.