A man has been jailed for six months after threatening to behead his son’s teacher after she disciplined him at school for disruptive behaviour. The 47-year-old was sentenced Thursday, less than a week after the incident in Le Fauga, a small town of about 2,600 people near the French city of Toulouse, according to Agence France-Presse (AFP) and the BBC. The teacher was given official protection and placed on leave, French Education Minister Édouard Geffray wrote in X on Thursday. A profession with this menace of inadmissible manner. Je lui apporte tout mon soutien, ainsi qu’à ses collegues, aux elèves et à leurs familles. The reported events are extremely serious. principals of academies from the risk of violence and hostility on the part of students’ parents. Get daily national news Get daily Canadian news delivered to your inbox so you never miss the day’s top stories. The law states that educational authorities can force a student to change schools if a parent displays threatening behavior toward a teacher or other staff. Geffray described the reported facts of the incident as “extremely serious” and offered his full support to the teacher, her colleagues, the students and their families. “This situation will lead to one of the first applications of the decree issued this summer to protect staff from threats and violence by parents of students,” he continued. “No teacher should be afraid to practice their profession. Attacking one of them is attacking the entire institution,” the statement concludes. The case comes six years after Samuel Paty, a teacher from a Paris suburb, was stabbed and beheaded in an attack outside the school where he taught by an 18-year-old Moscow-born Chechen refugee and radicalized Islamic fundamentalist. He was shot dead by police shortly after the incident. Brahim Chnina, the father of one of Paty’s students, was among eight adults convicted of helping the killer. Chnina was found guilty of criminal terrorist association after circulating online content detailing his daughter’s false claim that Paty had displayed material depicting a naked Muhammad and asked Muslim students to leave the room during a free speech class, an act that courts found contributed to Paty’s murder. Publications on social networks called for mobilization against the teacher. Paty showed a picture of Muhammad in class, but the claim that Muhammad was naked and that he asked the Muslim students to leave was a fabrication; The girl who made the complaint was not present in class the day the images were shown, and later admitted to prosecutors that she had lied. Paty had shown cartoons published by the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo. The publication of those images sparked a deadly extremist massacre in Charlie Hebdo’s newsroom in 2015, where 12 people, including employees and visitors, were shot to death. 0:48 French Education Minister expresses condolences after attack in Paris suburb Six teenagers, including the student who made the false accusations against Paty, were also convicted for their role in her murder. © 2026 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.