Dozens of French schools have been placed under armed guard after more than 130 received Islamist terrorist threats amid fresh resistance to the ban on religious clothing in schools.
The Jean-Perrin Lycée in Rezé, near the city of Nantes in western France, was evacuated on Thursday after pupils, parents and teachers received online videos showing beheadings. The videos were posted on a digital platform used as a link between staff, pupils and parents and emailed directly to teachers.
There has been a growing sense of crisis in France’s schools. Introduced two decades ago, the ban is intended to preserve secularism — a key value in post-revolutionary France — in state schools, which are barred from offering religious instruction or holding services.
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