Europe 1 with AFP // Photo credits: 11:31 a.m., March 27, 2024

The principal of the Parisian high school Maurice-Ravel, threatened with death after an altercation with a veiled student in early March, has resigned from his duties. The announcement strongly reacted across the political spectrum, from the left to the far right, who denounced a “failure” in the face of the “Islamist movement”. 

From the left to the far right, political leaders deplored on Wednesday a "failure" in the face of the "Islamist movement", after the departure of a Parisian high school principal threatened with death following an altercation with a veiled student. A month after the events, the principal of the Maurice-Ravel high school left his position. “For security reasons” according to a message sent Tuesday to teachers, students and parents, while the rectorate spoke of an “early departure” in retirement “in view of the events which have marked these last weeks”.

“A collective failure”

The head of the school was in fact the target of death threats on the internet since an altercation with an adult student who had refused to remove her veil on the school grounds. “This is what the ‘no wave’ leads to, this is where small cowardices and big renunciations lead us,” reacted the boss of senators LR Bruno Retailleau on the social network X.

This is what the “no wave” leads to, this is where small cowardices and great renunciations lead us. The resignation of this principal is the result of the resignation of national education and the entire State.



A shame. https://t.co/OAC8fpHDxg

— Bruno Retailleau (@BrunoRetailleau) March 27, 2024

“We cannot accept it”, declared on France 2 the leader of the socialist deputies Boris Vallaud, believing that “it is a collective failure”. “It is above all a defeat of the State” in the face of “the Islamist gangrene which is thriving”, added on Sud Radio the head of the Reconquest list in the European elections, Marion Maréchal. Also pointing out the "scourge of Islamism", the LR mayor of Cannes David Lisnard denounced more broadly on France Inter a "decivilization which does a lot of harm" and made the link with "the attacks on elected officials and the custodians of public authority”.

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