Headmaster of Ravel high school in Paris was threatened with death after an altercation with a student to get her to remove her veil. “We are standing, to say that we will not go back,” insisted Bruno Bobkiewicz, general secretary of SNPDEN-Unsa, the first union of school heads, during a press conference.

The majority union insisted on providing its “support” in the face of an “intolerable” situation. ‘Heads of establishments are destabilized, because there is a global desire for destabilization’