Religion Teacher receives Threats

Case information
Incident date
Country
Poland
Place
Toruń
Categories
  • Social Hostility / Intolerance
Attack Against
  • Faith
Societal Sphere
  • Social Media
Hate Crime & Violent Incidents
  • Threats
  • Insult or Incitement
Place of Incident
  • Internet
Bias Indicators
  • Comments/Written Statements/Gestures/Graffiti
Reported to Police
  • Yes
Response of Local Authorities
  • Investigated
Symbolic image; not a photograph of the reported incident.Image credit: Polish primary school, symbolic image (By Kamil Czaiński, Wiki Commons)

On June 15, 2023, insults and threats were directed at one of the religion teachers at Primary School No. 35 in Toruń, who was organising a series of lessons for children under the slogan "Feel the chemistry of Jesus".

A pedagogical innovation that aimed to introduce first-grade children to the subject of the seven holy sacraments using safe chemical experiments. A post commemorating the catechist's actions on the school's Facebook profile was followed by threats and vulgar posts directed at the teacher.