Elham Asaad Buaras
A Muslim student at Jean boarding school in Caen, Northwestern France was subjected to an Islamophobic attack earlier last month.
When the student at Jean Rostand High School returned to her dormitory on October 13, she found her copy of the Qur’an torn and one of her head scarves in the dustbin.
“She was shocked and shaken by this attack which targets her religion” explained headmaster Sébastien Duval-Rocher. “But fortunately, she was not physical integrity affected,” he adds.
The student reported the incident to the school management. Duval-Rocher said that he and his colleagues were shocked by the incident. He noted the school is open-minded “and tolerant and accept all confessions,” and said he denounced the “unworthy, intolerable, legally reprehensible act.”
Armelle Fellahi, school inspector in Calvados, condemned the incident as an “intolerable act which deprives a student of one of her fundamental rights”.
Neither the student nor her family want to file a complaint against the perpetrator, but the prosecutor’s office acted through the school’s management.
