The teacher at Emmaus College in Rotterdam has gone into hiding after having been threatened by a cartoon. That reports NRC Wednesday evening.
A cartoon by cartoonist Joep Bertram about the attack hung in the room Charlie Hebdo. The drawing depicted a decapitated man in a Charlie Hebdo shirt sticking out his tongue at the jihadist who just beheaded him.
According to NRC the cartoon had been hanging in the classroom for five years. The newspaper writes that a group of Muslim girls wanted the cartoon to disappear from the board. They would have said that the teacher was guilty of blasphemy. The teacher would also have wanted to explain in vain that the man in the cartoon is not the prophet Mohammed, but a jihadist.
A photo of the drawing is then shared on social media. That then goes viral. The teacher receives threats related to the cartoon. The police take the matter “extremely seriously” and say they are taking visible and invisible measures to protect the man
Multiple teachers would no longer feel safe
The class recently discussed the murder of the French teacher Samuel Paty. The teacher was beheaded last month in a Paris suburb after showing a cartoon of the prophet Mohammed in a lesson on freedom of expression.
In a letter to the parents, the school management of the Emmaus College stated that they were shocked. “We make every effort to ensure that our school remains a safe place for everyone, so that the students can go to school in peace and quiet,” said the school management.
Nevertheless, several teachers from the Emmaus College are against it NRC said they no longer feel safe at the moment, the newspaper said.
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