A police armband, in Paris, in September 2019. -

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A 14-year-old schoolboy threatened a teacher from a college in Savigny-le-Temple, in Seine-et-Marne, to “cut her up like Samuel Paty” during a course devoted to freedom of expression, he said. we learned Friday from corroborating sources.

An investigation was opened in particular for death threats on a person responsible for a public service mission, said the Melun prosecutor's office, confirming information from the

Parisian

.

The teenager, in third grade, who also carried in one of his pockets an electric impulse Taser gun, was to be presented to a juvenile judge on Friday afternoon.

He was arrested Thursday by the police, alerted by the principal of the establishment, following threats made to his professor of history and geography during a civic education course, during which the teacher showed "a photo of a demonstration relating to the attacks, ”according to a police source.

"Provocative pupil and in rebellion"

Following the incident, the teacher, accompanied by the college principal, filed a complaint.

In police custody, the young person indicated that he had taken the words of a rap song and gave no details on the reasons for wearing the Taser in the college, according to the police source.

No sign of radicalization within his family environment has been identified, said a source familiar with the matter.

Unknown to the police, he "used to be a provocative student and rebel", according to the prosecution.

The schoolboy was sidelined by a "precautionary measure" before the holding of a disciplinary council, indicated the rectorate of Créteil, specifying that the teacher would be accompanied on the legal and medical level.

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