Panic at French High School Over Student’s Arabic Photocopy During Memorial

Following the triggering of the "security protocol", the police arrive. The student admitted to having photocopied a sheet of paper bearing an Arabic inscription, at the high school’s CDI. As the principal and the police were unable to decipher the writing, "specialists" were called in. The sentence "could in no way be open to interpretation," it is said at the academic directorate of Sarthe. In an internal email to the teaching staff, the principal refrained from providing more information.

The parents of the students did not receive any details either. The document "could seem suspicious," justifies the principal. The academic directorate explains that "given the context" of the tribute to Samuel Paty, the history-geography teacher who was beheaded, it was necessary to make a "lifting of doubt". "These facts, which have naturally been explored with the great speed required by the current context, do not ultimately constitute any criminal qualification, nor any guilty intent," the public prosecutor’s office told France Bleu Maine.