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A man has been given a six-month jail term in France after he threatened to kill a female primary school teacher who had disciplined his son at a village primary school.<\/b><\/p>\n
He was sentenced after a fast-track hearing on Thursday, six days after the events unfolded in Le Fauga, a village with a population of about 2,600 just outside the southwestern city of Toulouse.<\/p>\n
The teacher has been granted official protection and has gone on sick leave.<\/p>\n
French Education Minister Edouard Geffray said: “No teacher should be afraid to do their job. Attacking one of them is attacking the entire institution.”<\/p>\n
Over the summer, Geffray steered through a law aimed at protecting staff from a “significant risk” to their safety or health from a member of a student’s family. <\/p>\n
The minister said this case would trigger one of the first uses of the decree.<\/p>\n
The case revives terrible memories in France of the beheading of a teacher in the Paris suburb of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine six years ago. Samuel Paty was murdered outside his school by an 18-year-old Chechen refugee.<\/p>\n
In Le Fauga, the teacher’s colleagues did not go into work on Monday because of what had happened the previous Friday.<\/p>\n
The threat was made after the man had been called in for a chat with the school, according to Toulouse education chief Karim Benmiloud.<\/p>\n
Le Fauga Mayor Jean-Marie Puig told BFMTV that the man’s son had been disruptive in class and the teacher had sent him to another class to calm down, although he continued to misbehave.<\/p>\n
She was then threatened by the father, who according to the mayor had waited for her “outside the school and apparently threatened to cut off her head if she’d been a man”.<\/p>\n
The parent subsequently apologised, however a judicial complaint was made and he went before the prosecutor in Toulouse on Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n
The decree passed in July allows for a student to be transferred to another school in a case involving significant risk to staff, and where education authorities have intervened.<\/p>\n
It is thought the boy and a younger sister may now be moved to another school outside Le Fauga.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n