On Wednesday April 17, a 16-year-old student attending the Lycée professionnel Camille-Claudel in Soissons (Aisne) was permanently expelled from his school. “We have a series of extremely serious incidents, as it concerns the glorification of crime,” the head of the Amiens Academy’s rector’s office, Eric Alexandre, told France 3.
The high school student is accused of showing his classmates videos of beheadings. “It made the other pupils uncomfortable because he laughed a lot about it,” said José Gaspar, CGT-Éducation representative at the vocational school. It was apparently not the first time that the teenager had shown violent videos. The pupil is also alleged to have cut up an Israeli flag that was displayed on a banner that was put up at the school as part of an educational programme. These offences were reported and an investigation was launched. The headteacher’s office is currently not commenting on the possible Islamist nature of these actions. According to the newspaper L’Union, the teenager will be summoned to appear before a juvenile court judge on May 7.