2023-09-20 09:11:29
The rectorate of the Créteil academy questioned the method used by the police. A 14-year-old schoolboy suspected of harassing a 15-year-old transgender high school student was arrested on Tuesday September 19 during class at his establishment in Alfortville, in Val-de-Marne. The teenager was then taken into police custody and brought before a magistrate, the prosecution and the academy told Agence France-Presse (AFP).
The affair began when the parents of a 15-year-old high school student obtained to be received Monday morning by the principal of the Maximilien-Perret high school in Alfortville, where she is enrolled in the 2nd grade, the rectorate said. The student’s father then filed a complaint with the city police station, claiming that his daughter had been targeted by homophobic messages and death threats on Instagram, the prosecution added.
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Thanks to the use of screenshots, the police identified the author of these messages, a student from Henri-Barbusse college in Alfortville, and came to arrest him in class. An investigation into violence resulting in incapacity for work for less than eight days and death threats was opened Tuesday morning, added the prosecution, which specifies that the fact that these offenses were committed because of gender or sexual orientation of the victim was retained as an aggravating circumstance.
The Créteil academy told AFP that the victim, male in civil status, was in gender transition. Her family told the rectorate that she was a transgender girl. The arrested schoolboy, who admitted the facts and expressed regret, was brought before a magistrate late Tuesday afternoon. He was then notified by the public prosecutor of an educational measure, defined by the prosecution as “an activity for the benefit of the community” which will have to be carried out in the coming weeks.
In a press release, the rectorate of the Créteil academy announced “exact with the authorities concerned” pour “understand under what conditions police officers may have been required to intervene in a school establishment to arrest a student in class”.
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