France: Schoolboy on trial for glorifying Islamist terrorism

On Monday, a high school student from Méru (Oise, 14,500 inhabitants) has to appear before the juvenile court in Beauvais. In history class, the 17-year-old allegedly said that he “would not fight for France, but for Syria”. Videos “of a propagandist nature” were also found in his mobile phone.

A high school student with a disturbing criminal profile or a simple provocateur? According to the newspaper Le Parisien, a 17-year-old youth is on trial in the Beauvais court on Monday for “public glorification of terrorism” after making comments online and in a classroom at the Condorcet high school in Méru, where he goes to school. “He has been summoned before the juvenile court judge to explain his misconduct and be sentenced according to the procedure of educational probation,” said Beauvais prosecutor Caroline Tharot. […]Le Parisien

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