Primary School Teacher Suspended after Reading Bible Verses to Pupils
Case information
Incident date
Country
France
Categories
Government Restrictions
Attack Against
Faith
Perpetrator / Motive Indicators
Anti-Religion or Humanism Groups
Societal Sphere
Education
Governmental
Workplace
Religious Freedom / Discrimination
Exclusion (of individuals or ideas)
Freedom of Expression
After a group of parents sent a letter of complaint, the school's headmaster suspended the Malicornay teacher. The teacher will remain under suspension pending an investigation into whether he was proselytizing in violation of secularism laws or simply studying the texts with the students. The city's mayor has denounced the suspension as extreme.