A 17-year-old high school student was arrested Tuesday morning in Armentières, in the North, after threatening to slit the throat of his philosophy teacher in an Instagram conversation with three friends, we learned Wednesday from two police sources and the prosecution from Dunkirk. This teenager, unknown to the justice system, made these threats on Monday to three friends on this social network, said one of the police sources. It was then reported by one of them on the Pharos platform, a government site allowing illicit content to be reported online, according to Dunkirk public prosecutor Charlotte Huet who “requested the transmission of this procedure for assessment “.
Comments in the form of humor
“During his hearing by the police, the person who made the report (…) finally indicated that these remarks had been made ‘in the form of humor'”, she added in a press release. The remarks were made “in reaction to the fact that, due to the intervention of this teacher, the high school release time was going to be later”, continued the prosecution, which emphasizes that they took place in a conversation on Instagram.
The teenager, aged 17, has no criminal record and has “caused no incident in his school”, according to Charlotte Huet. “The investigations carried out, and in particular the exploitation of the accused’s mobile phone as well as the exploitation of all of his accounts on social networks, did not uncover any facts promoting terrorism.” He was arrested early Tuesday morning, then placed in police custody, according to police sources. A police force was then set up around the establishment, the Paul-Hazard high school. The teacher concerned filed a complaint, according to these same sources.