Trappes Mayor Under Police Protection After Death Threats Over Islamism Dispute

"Several death threats have been recorded on the Pharos platform," said Roberto Romero, a member of the national collective of Génération.s, also a regional councilor of Île-de-France, on BFMTV. "The national police estimated that these threats were serious. The mayor has therefore had close protection since Friday evening," he added. Mr. Rabeh himself confirmed to AFP that he is now benefiting from police protection.

On Thursday on CNews, the mayor had described as "lies" the statements of Didier Lemaire, a philosophy teacher in a high school in the Yvelines town. The latter had denounced "the ever-increasing communal grip" on his students, as well as "the lack of a state strategy to defeat Islamism."

On Friday, an anonymous report was filed on the Pharos platform. The person was denouncing a message posted on a forum. In this message, an Internet user threatened the mayor of Trappes with death in an explicit way. The Versailles prosecutor’s office then opened an investigation, which was entrusted to the judicial police of Yvelines. So far, there have been no arrests.