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The 16-year-old who pointed a gun at his teacher is presented this Sunday to a juvenile judge. AFP / Philippe Desmazes

The video went around social networks. Shot in a class at a professional high school in Créteil (Paris region), we see a student pointing a pistol at his teacher. If the weapon was actually a ballpoint gun, these images of great violence made an outcry and triggered an investigation. The teenager in question was placed in custody and presented this Sunday to a judge.

According to his teachers, this is not a high school used to this kind of things. This kind of thing is this scene where a student first points a pistol in the face of his teacher by ordering him to write it as "present" in the notebook.

Very quickly, the video of the event goes around the social networks, which pushed this teenager to go to the police with his father.

Immediately placed in custody and presented to a juvenile judge, he recognizes the facts, but minimizes them, ensuring he wanted to laugh. The weapon is actually a ball gun.

In any case, the case provokes a great stir in the educational community. The rectorate, the various teacher unions all supported this teacher.

This is also the case of several politicians. Emmanuel Macron in the lead. The head of state asked the Minister of National Education to take all measures to ensure that such facts do not happen again.

Jean-Michel Blanquer and his counterpart in the interior, Christophe Castaner have announced the holding next week of a strategic committee on the issue with the objective of setting up an action plan.