A few days before the second anniversary of the death of Samuel Paty – a teacher murdered by an Islamist terrorist in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine on October 16, 2020 – a teacher received death threats. The Lycée Brassens in Evry-Courcouronnes (Essonne), where he teaches, received a letter addressed to the headmaster on October 10. As CNews reported on Wednesday October 12, this letter contained threats against a history teacher and his father. The two men are of the Jewish faith.
The author of the letter threatened to ” make him a Samuel Paty “, i.e. to kill him under the same circumstances as Samuel Paty, who was beheaded after showing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in class. As CNews further reports, the letter also reportedly said, “We don’t want Jews in high schools.”
The letter was seized by police and investigated, BFMTV reports. The Evry-Courcouronnes prosecutor’s office has opened an investigation into a death threat against a person in public service. It was entrusted to the urban security department of the Evry police station, the broadcaster reports. According to its information, the threatened teacher had not raised any sensitive issues in class with his students that could justify such threats.