The 14-year-old boy was put in handcuffs and marched out of his classroom on Monday.
The quoted comments go far beyond bullying. Death threats should always end in an arrest.
Not the guardian relativising violence against trans people?! Colour me shocked.
Totally agree. Kids have killed themselves over stuff like this. It is a criminal offence for a reason.
The kid killed himself. :-/
Extremely sad.
The controversy comes days after it emerged that education officials had sent a threatening letter to the parents of a boy who had complained of being bullied by classmates for months, saying their public statements complaining about the bullying were “unacceptable” and urged them to adopt a “constructive” attitude.
The boy, identified as Nicolas, 15, later killed himself on 5 September in a Paris suburb, one day after pupils went back to school after the summer break.
Oh, got it. So they fucked up real bad and are now trying make this about the police response so no one will question why they helped a bully kill his target.
Ragebait title. Bullying is one thing. Death threats is another. That goes way beyond simple bullying. The arrest was fully justified.
But it isn’t about the arrest. Of course it was justified in general. It is about arresting him in front of the class for show, when that isn’t matching the usual procedures in such a case.
Wild that the arrest of someone sending death threats needs to be defended.
If they did nothing and the asshole killed them?
“Why didn’t the school do something to prevent it!!?!!”
Hopfully they called the police.
In genral I am getting pissed off with schools who think crime is there job to resolve. Death threats are a crime. Schools thinking it is there job teaches children the wrong thing about the real world.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The French government has defended the arrest of a teenage boy in the middle of class over claims of bullying a transgender classmate, a rare move that angered many pupils and parents despite widespread support for a crackdown on harassment.
Government spokesperson Olivier Veran said the arrest had been made “in compliance” with policies against abusive behaviour, and aimed to send “a very strong message” to bullying students.
A police source told the AFP news agency that the decision to arrest the boy was based on “the nature of extremely serious threats that required urgent detention”.
The alleged victim, who attends a different school, was targeted with comments such as “We’re going to cut your throat” and “I detest your type … go die, go kill yourself”.
The controversy comes days after it emerged that education officials had sent a threatening letter to the parents of a boy who had complained of being bullied by classmates for months, saying their public statements complaining about the bullying were “unacceptable” and urged them to adopt a “constructive” attitude.
The boy, identified as Nicolas, 15, later killed himself on 5 September in a Paris suburb, one day after pupils went back to school after the summer break.
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The boy, identified as Nicolas, 15, later killed himself on 5 September in a Paris suburb, one day after pupils went back to school after the summer break.
Yeah, the bullied kid committed suicide. That seems reason enough to arrest him in class.
I think that was a different case of bullying.
If it has been done after school, they’d complain about police interrupting dinner. This was a no win situation. I guess they could have asked the parents to bring the kid in, but I don’t see why white glove service is required for an ugly crime like that.
Don’t threaten to kill people and you won’t be ‘shamed’ by getting arrested at school.
Hope it helps prevent further bullying and suicides. Sometimes a hard stance needs to be taken.
I fully support the arrest, those are serious threats and they should be met with serious consequences.
It’s still weird to me that it was done in a classroom though. I understand the intent of “sending a strong message” but idk if I like it all that much. They could’ve arrested him at his home and forgo this whole performative stunt.
When I was in high school someone in my class did some highly fucked up shit and got in very serious legal trouble for it (and we never saw him at the school again). After he was expelled/arrested, we just had a very long talk in class about what he did and why it was so serious and wrong, and it was effective, it’s one of few things I remember from high school now actually lol. We didn’t need to have the police show up to scare us into not doing it, at least I didn’t, idk how effective it was on everyone else.
Not sure how I feel about that.
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You shouldn’t arrest children in a classroom with other children.
Who knows who could get hurt in such an altercation?
For once Police is doing its job. I hope they get a little rough with the kid, bullies deserve to get smashed to a pulp. Jk they only do it to protesters.
Good that government actually DO something.
2 (or 3) years ago, a teacher was beheaded by students. Death threats against teachers (or other pupils) are quite common in “some” areas (you know, the ones that rioted recently).
But some part of the population (mostly far-left) actually defend such behaviour, so yeah government has to explain itself.
That’s one of the reasons why I left France, actually.
2 (or 3) years ago, a teacher was beheaded by students.
That actually never happened.
À teacher was beheaded by a tchetchen lunatic because he supposedly offended Muslim sensibilities according to a vocal student’s testimony. Not at all the same thing.
Close to the real thing tho.
I’m as leftist as they come, and some of us support strong action against bullying, death threats and religious presence in school :)
