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, reports The Guardian.
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 7 January, 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.
“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.”