Louise Sallé // Photo credit: Serge Tenani / Hans Lucas / Hans Lucas via AFP 7:43 p.m., March 5, 2024

Parisian high school principal Maurice Ravel is only six months away from retirement, but he has been facing a storm since last week when he asked a BTS student to remove her veil.

The latter says she was hit.

Since then, this principal has received death threats on the Internet.

Nicole Belloubet, went there.

The new Minister of Education, Nicole Belloubet, made the trip.

On site, at the Maurice-Ravel high school, she denounced "unacceptable" attacks against the principal of this establishment, located in the 20th arrondissement of Paris, after asking a student to remove her veil.

"Elements are being propagated on its networks that are completely inaccurate. And I find that these approximations to reality can be extremely dangerous. We must all be attentive to this, since we know very well what has been the origin of the assassination of Samuel Paty. And obviously, we are very attentive to this type of situation", explains the minister.

Some teachers do not feel safe in this school

Welcome support in a tense climate.

The principal benefits from functional protection specific to public officials.

The teachers, some of whom do not feel safe in this high school, are increasing their efforts with their students to discuss the situation and explain that the head of the school has been the victim of slander on social networks with false information claiming that he had violently hit a veiled student.

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"For me, the most important thing is that they know how to use the media and how to verify information, cross-reference sources, etc. That's it, those are the number one problems: hasty judgments, the call for lynching, a rumor, everything that unleashes. Our job is to help them distance themselves,” explains a history and geography professor at this Parisian establishment.

Another teacher said he also talked about it in class to prevent his students from falling into the trap of this rumor.

“But we’re working on sand,” he said, annoyed.