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Man jailed after threatening to kill son's teacher in French village
The father was given a fast-tracked hearing in Toulouse
A man has been given a six-month jail term in France after he threatened to kill a female primary school teacher who had disciplined his son at a village primary school.
He was sentenced after a fast-track hearing on Thursday, six days after the events unfolded in Le Fauga, a village with a population of about 2,600 just outside the southwestern city of Toulouse.
The teacher has been granted official protection and has gone on sick leave.
French Education Minister Edouard Geffray said: "No teacher should be afraid to do their job. Attacking one of them is attacking the entire institution."
Over the summer, Geffray steered through a law aimed at protecting staff from a "significant risk" to their safety or health from a member of a student's family.
The minister said this case would trigger one of the first uses of the decree.
The case revives terrible memories in France of the beheading of a teacher in the Paris suburb of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine six years ago. Samuel Paty was murdered outside his school by an 18-year-old Chechen refugee.
In Le Fauga, the teacher's colleagues did not go into work on Monday because of what had happened the previous Friday.
The threat was made after the man had been called in for a chat with the school, according to Toulouse education chief Karim Benmiloud.