The 14-year-old boy was put in handcuffs and marched out of his classroom on Monday.

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The quoted comments go far beyond bullying. Death threats should always end in an arrest.

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Not the guardian relativising violence against trans people?! Colour me shocked.

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Totally agree. Kids have killed themselves over stuff like this. It is a criminal offence for a reason.

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The kid killed himself. :-/

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Extremely sad.

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The controversy comes days after it emerged that education officials had sent a threatening letter to the parents of a boy who had complained of being bullied by classmates for months, saying their public statements complaining about the bullying were “unacceptable” and urged them to adopt a “constructive” attitude.

The boy, identified as Nicolas, 15, later killed himself on 5 September in a Paris suburb, one day after pupils went back to school after the summer break.

Oh, got it. So they fucked up real bad and are now trying make this about the police response so no one will question why they helped a bully kill his target.

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Ragebait title. Bullying is one thing. Death threats is another. That goes way beyond simple bullying. The arrest was fully justified.

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But it isn’t about the arrest. Of course it was justified in general. It is about arresting him in front of the class for show, when that isn’t matching the usual procedures in such a case.

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If they did nothing and the asshole killed them?

“Why didn’t the school do something to prevent it!!?!!”

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Hopfully they called the police.

In genral I am getting pissed off with schools who think crime is there job to resolve. Death threats are a crime. Schools thinking it is there job teaches children the wrong thing about the real world.

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Wild that the arrest of someone sending death threats needs to be defended.

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