France to Criminalize Parental Objections to Muhammad Caricatures in Schools

"If parents go see a teacher to tell him to stop teaching the caricatures during the course on freedom of expression, tomorrow it will be a criminal offense. And a judge may say, if you are foreigners and you are convicted of this offense, you can leave the national territory," the minister said on Europe 1.

During the funeral of Samuel Paty, the history and geography teacher beheaded for having shown caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad to his students, French President Emmanuel Macron had defended the right to publish caricatures, including those of the prophet, in the name of freedom of expression. These remarks were harshly criticized by Muslim countries as well as French political figures, including Ségolène Royal.