(Radio France) A 19-year-old man from the south-eastern French city of Nice has been sentenced to 18 months’ prison for threatening a teacher that he will “die like Samuel Paty,” who was beheaded in October north-east of Paris, the Nice prosecutor’s office said on Saturday.
The high school graduate was convicted by the public prosecutor of “advocating terrorism online” and “making death threats.”
Speaking at the trial on Friday, the youth’s defence was that he “was making a joke” and trying to impress one of the teacher’s female students.
According to daily Nice-Matin, the youth had heard through social media that the teacher in his 30s had questioned some of his students over suspicions of cheating on a mock baccalauréat exam.
