Man jailed after threatening to kill son's teacher in French village

A man has been sentenced to a six‑month jail term in France after he threatened to kill a teacher who had disciplined his son at a village school. The fast‑track proceeding took place on Thursday, six days after the incident unfolded in Le Fauga, a commune of roughly 2,600 residents just outside Toulouse. The teacher has been granted a protective order and is currently on sick leave. French Education Minister Edouard Geffray declared, “No teacher should beryllium acrophobic to bash their job. Attacking 1 of them is attacking the full institution.” Over the summer, Geffray pushed through a measure intended to safeguard school staff from a “significant risk” to their safety or wellbeing posed by a member of a student’s family. He said the present case would trigger one of the first applications of the decree. The lawsuit revives painful memories in France of the beheading of teacher Samuel Paty six years ago in the Paris suburb of Conflans‑Sainte‑Honorine by an 18‑year‑old Chechen refugee. In Le Fauga, the teacher’s colleagues did not report for work on Monday because of what had occurred the previous Friday. The threat followed a meeting the man had been summoned to attend with the school, according to Toulouse education chief Karim Benmiloud. Le Fauga Mayor Jean‑Marie Puig told BFMTV that the man’s son had been disruptive in class and the teacher had sent him to another room to calm down, although the boy continued to misbehave. The teacher in that class was alleged to have told the pupil, “stop acting similar a small bully,” BFMTV reports. She was subsequently threatened by the father, who, per the mayor, had waited for her “outside the schoolhouse and seemingly threatened to chopped disconnected her caput if she'd been a man.” The father later apologized, yet a judicial complaint was filed and he appeared before the magistrate in Toulouse on Thursday afternoon. The decree enacted in July permits a pupil to be transferred to another school when there is a significant risk to staff and education authorities have intervened. It is believed the boy and his younger sister may now be moved to a school outside Le Fauga.