People gather in memory of the victims of the attack on the offices of
France's satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, during a vigil at Kennedy park
in Lima, Peru, on January 7, 2015. An eight-year-old boy in France was
questioned by police for half an hour Wednesday after he allegedly made
comments in school in praise of terrorists, police said. PHOTO | FILE
NICE,
An
eight-year-old boy in France was questioned by police for half an hour
Wednesday after he allegedly made comments in school in praise of
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terrorists, police said.
terrorists, police said.
The child
triggered concern when he refused to take part in a minute's silence at
his school in the southern city of Nice after Islamist gunmen shot dead
12 people at the Paris offices of the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo on January 7, according to Marcel Authier, in charge of the region's public security.
The boy's teacher said the child also expressed "solidarity" with the gunmen.
COLLECTIVE HYSTERIA
"In
the current context, the principal of the school decided to report to
police what had happened," said Authier, who stressed no complaint had
been filed against the boy.
"We summoned the child and his father to try and comprehend how an eight-year-old boy could hold such radical ideas," he added.
"Obviously, the child doesn't understand what he's saying."
The
boy's lawyer Sefen Guez Guez was not immediately available for comment
but on his Twitter feed (@IbnSalah) he wrote that the child admitted to
police saying the words: "I am with the terrorists".
Yet when police asked what the word "terrorism" meant, he replied: "I don't know", according to the tweet.
"Father
and son are deeply shocked by their treatment which illustrates the
collective hysteria that has engulfed France since early January," said
the Collective Against Islamophobia in France (CCIF) in a statement.
The Charlie Hebdo murders kicked off three days of Islamist attacks in Paris that left 17 people dead and traumatised the country.
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