This is the second time that a teacher at the Lycée Jean Monnet in Libourne (south-west France) has received a racist death threat. On the first occasion, in December 2023, the letter’s author attacked her teacher and the school’s Arab pupils, saying they should be “slit like [his] grandfather’s pigs”.

An investigation has been opened by the Libourne public prosecutor’s office for “death threats against a public official”.

However, condemnation of the threats is slow in coming from political representatives, who never miss an opportunity to defend threatened teachers, and rightly so.