display
Almost four months after the beheading of the French history teacher Samuel Paty by a suspected Islamist, another educator fears for his life: According to information from Monday, the Versailles public prosecutor is investigating the case of the philosophy teacher Didier Lemaire.
After the murder of Paty in mid-October, he warned of the growing influence of Islamists and received death threats as a result.
Lemaire says he is now under police protection.
At the beginning of November he published an open letter in the magazine “L'Obs” accusing the French state of not having an effective strategy against Islamism.
In his 20 years as a high school teacher in the Paris suburb of Trappes, he “witnessed a growing Islamist influence,” he wrote.
In the suburb southwest of Paris is one of more than 60 satellite settlements that the French government wants to "recapture" from the hands of Islamists with the help of an increased police presence.
More than 50 residents of Trappes are said to have joined jihadists in Iraq and Syria since 2013.
display
History teacher Paty was killed in another suburb northwest of Paris in October by an alleged Islamist from Chechnya after showing cartoons of Mohammed in class.