A Teacher Harassed for an Outing with Migrants: up to Eight Months' Suspended Imprisonment for the Authors
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Six defendants, four men and two women between 53 and 71 years of age, were tried on Friday in Paris for moral harassment after participating in the digital lynching of Sophie Djigo, professor of philosophy.
Up to 8 months of suspended prison were handed down by the Paris Correctional Court on Friday 20 March 2026 against 5 people, notably for aggravated harassment and threats of death to Sophie Djigo. The teacher, who had planned to take her preparatory class students from Valenciennes (North) to a camp of migrants from the coast, had been cyber-harassed.
In 2022, the teacher of a high school in Valencienne had proposed to her students an educational project on migration. She was the target of a flood of hateful comments and various threats. The trial of the six defendants was held at the end of January in Paris.
The Paris Correctional Court sentenced five people for the digital lynching of Sophie Djigo, a philosophy professor targeted after the announcement of a school trip to a prison camp.
At the end of 2022, his plan for a school trip to a migrant camp, relayed online by the vigilant Parents collective close to Eric Zemmour's Reconquête party, triggered a wave of cyberbullying.
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