Loire-Atlantique: A 17-year-old high school student was charged and placed in pre-trial detention after threatening to kill his teacher on Telegram.
In Rezé (Loire-Atlantique), near Nantes, a 17-year-old high school student was indicted and placed in provisional detention this Friday, September 13, reports BFMTV. On Thursday, he was arrested and taken into custody after simulating a gunshot while handing in an assignment at the Jean-Perrin high school. According to France Blue Loire Oceanhe then allegedly apologized after the teacher criticized him for “this inappropriate behavior,” the rectorate said in a press release published Friday afternoon. But in the evening, the teenager threatened to kill the teacher on the Telegram network.
On the night of September 11 to 12, the Nantes public prosecutor’s office was in fact “informed by an intelligence service that a 17-year-old young man, unknown to the police and justice services, living in Bouguenais had indicated on a social network a few moments before that he intended to ‘shoot one of his teachers in the jugular’ the next day, while presenting himself as a follower of the Islamic State movement”, the public prosecutor’s office explained in a press release.
“Shocked”, the teacher is on sick leave
For the time being, the National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office (PNAT) is, according to BFMTV, observing these facts with the Nantes prosecutor’s office. The judicial police are currently in charge of this case. “Two knives and a Daesh flag were found during a search,” the media outlet specifies. On Tik-Tok and Telegram, the teenager “broadcasts violent actions of the Islamic State,” reports France Bleu. On the other hand, according to the Nantes Academy, he was not known for radicalization by the National Education system.
“This student will be subject to disciplinary proceedings,” the rectorate said, according to Nantes NewsThe teacher is supported by the rectorate and benefits from “functional protection”. “She is not well, she is shocked”, the Snes union explains to France Bleu. She has been on sick leave since then.