The day after being taken into police custody after threatening one of her teachers, a 17-year-old high school student from Rézé was charged on Friday evening with “public apology for an act of terrorism” and “death threats,” the Nantes prosecutor’s office announced on Saturday. It said the teenager had been placed in a home.
“The person concerned admitted part of the facts during his police arrest but not the intention to physically attack his teacher”Nantes prosecutor Renaud Gaudeul said in a press release.
The latter added that the prosecution – which had requested the placement of the high school student under arrest warrant – had appealed the decision of the judge of liberties and detention to place the teenager “in a juvenile judicial protection center”.
ISIS flag discovered during search
On Wednesday, a teacher at the Jean-Perrin de Rézé high school surprised a student by simulating a shooting while he was handing in an assignment, a police source told Agence France-Presse.
The next morning, police arrested the high school student. “in your house” in a town bordering Rezé. During the night from Wednesday to Thursday, “an intelligence service” had alerted the Nantes prosecutor’s office, revealing that the young man had proclaimed on a social network on Wednesday evening his desire to “The next day he went for the jugular” of one of his teachers, while revealing himself to be a follower of the Islamic State movement”according to Gaudeul.
The search of his room allowed “An Islamic State flag, an airsoft gun and two knives were found, one of which was obtained the same day”Mr Gaudeul said. An initial exploitation of his digital and telephone tools also revealed communications on TikTok and Telegram, in which he broadcast violent actions by the Islamic State.
