In Clermont-Ferrand, the father of a high school student who refused to remove her abaya at school was placed in police custody for having made death threats against the high school principal.
The ban on wearing the abaya in schools has given rise to exchanges between students, parents and teaching teams according to the Ministry of National Education. But the discourse has not always been calmed. In Clermont-Ferrand, the father of a high school student wearing the abaya and being refused entry to the establishment was placed in police custody on Thursday September 7, 2023, reports The mountain. The man is suspected of having made death threats against the principal of the high school where his daughter attends.
The young high school student had already been prevented from entering class on the first day of the school year, Monday September 4, because she refused to remove her abaya. A situation which was repeated three days later. The father who had been received by the headmaster at the beginning of the week then called the establishment and “would have made death threats which targeted the headmaster” “to each of these interlocutors”.
The threatened principal supported by National Education
It is to apply the national directives which prohibit the wearing of the abaya at school that the Clermont establishment Ambroise-Brugière refused to let the high school student enter. And the threatened principal received the support of the rectorate of the Clermont-Ferrand academy, but also that of the Minister of Education Gabriel Attal, who would have telephoned him Thursday afternoon. National Education has also filed a complaint. The minister could speak on this matter as part of a trip this Friday to the Rhône, according to France Blue Country of Auvergne.
Laurent Wauquiez, president of the Auvergne Rhône-Alpes region also spoke and gave his support to the high school principal. He said he was “committed to ensuring that the decision to ban the abaya is applied” and insisted on “the interest of the security teams that we have created for this start of the school year. We are going to deploy one to the high school Brugière, in order to bring calm and security.”