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Man jailed after threatening to kill son's teacher in French village
The father had threatened to behead a female primary school teacher near Toulouse.
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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.
French Education Minister Edouard Geffray said: "No teacher should be afraid to do their job. Attacking one of them is attacking the entire institution."
The threat was made after the man had been called in for a chat with the school, according to Toulouse education chief Karim Benmiloud.