After reprimanding a student wearing an abaya, the teacher ended up under police protection

The incident took place before the holidays of all saints. The Spanish teacher of the secondary school of Antoine Bourdelle in Montauban (Tarn-et-Garonne) is under police protection. The teacher had complained about a student who came to class wearing an abaya, a religious women’s garment associated with Wahhabism, a doctrine that advocates strict Islamic practices.

The student, to whom the teacher makes a remark when entering the classroom, reports BFM-TV , is added at the end of the course. Unbeknownst to the professor, he records the exchange before posting it on social media. The National Education Services then alerted the school’s principal, who decided to take legal action. “The principal himself filed a complaint not because there is a proven threat to the safety of this teacher, but because illegal recording itself is prohibited, and so the matter is in the hands of the courts.Toulouse Academy Rector Mostafa Furar told the continuous news channel. The teacher also complains.

The police in front of the school

always according to BFM-TVA concerned middle school student would decide after the incident to start a petition by putting up posters at his high school.so students can come dressed however they want, not necessarily in an abaya“. At the same time, the regional newspaper The Midi Dispatch: notes that posters have been posted calling for a rally on November 9, inviting participants to dress up.abaya or long dress“. Police have been stationed around the school and are patrolling during opening and closing hours.

Is the young woman supported in her efforts? Several students, including a high school student, were questioned at the police station and an investigation was launched. “We see that there was work on the video [de l’échange avec la professeur NDLR] with subtitles before publishing“Our partners, in particular, are explained by a source close to the investigation Dispatcher. The student also filed a complaint against his Spanish teacher.

With protester signs and gear “like a religious affiliation” banned in public high schools since a 2004 law. And the phenomenon of abayas and windbreakers, their male gender, is growing, National Education Minister Pap Ndiaye admitted at the beginning of October. “It is true that the number of reports about outfits, let’s say Islamic, has increased over the course of a year. There is the famous phenomenon of abayas“, he announced, adding that this reality could be.founded by professional agitators who wish neither the school nor the republic well».