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Although the suspect denied any link between his act and the death of Samuel Paty, the National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor's Office will still assess the case.

A teenager was indicted for assaulting one of his teachers in Reims on Friday, we learned from the prosecution on Saturday.

"A teacher from the Jean Jaurès high school in Reims was the victim of an assault by one of his students yesterday afternoon when he was alone in his class after a course", also confirmed the rectorate.

Strangulation attempt

"The teacher managed to escape to give the alert" and the police, intervened quickly, were able to arrest the student without difficulty, said the rectorate.

According to the public prosecutor of Reims, Matthieu Bourrette, this Latvian teenager of 15 years and 11 months, educated in first class, tried to strangle his teacher then threw a table in his direction.

A good student but showing a more difficult behavior since the start of the September 2020 school year, this young man "of Muslim faith" who "assiduously practices his faith" chose to remain silent during his custody but indicated, "among the rare responses he provided, that the recent acts committed against teachers were "very serious incidents", "said the prosecutor.

The high school student admitted the assault and apologized for it.

He explained his gesture as a disproportionate reaction to a first assault on the teacher, who allegedly hit him with the door to the classroom.

Soon a disciplinary council

Indicted for willful violence that did not result in total incapacity for work on a person entrusted with a public service mission, he was placed in a public educational establishment dependent on the judicial protection of young people.

He was also expelled from the establishment pending a disciplinary council.

A psychological unit has been set up at the high school, where the academic director of the services of the National Education of the Marne must go Monday morning.

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