The Prime Minister, Gabriel Attal, announced Wednesday that the State “was going to file a complaint” for “slanderous denunciation” against the student who had wrongly accused the principal of the Parisian high school Maurice-Ravel of having assaulted her after her refusal to remove her veil.
“The State, the institution, will always be alongside these agents, those who are on the front line facing these attacks on secularism, facing these attempts at Islamist entryism into our educational establishments,” argued the head of government on TF1, the day after the announcement of the departure of the principal of the Maurice-Ravel high school, who has been threatened with death since the incident.