A Mother Was Sent to A year in Jail Because of the Ridiculous Reason

A French Court has sent a mother to one year in jail for slapping the teacher of one of her children, prosecutors said Wednesday, confirming a penalty seen as unusually harsh.

According to Punch, the court in the central town of Roanne went beyond the state’s recommendations in sentencing Elizabeta Elmaz for smacking the principal of her child’s primary school several times and pulling her hair in front of other children, parents and teachers.

The Court was asked by the Public Persecutor to sentence Elmaz, an ethnic Roma woman from Kosovo, to six month in custody.

The counsel for Elmaz said the judgment was rediculous, accusing the court of bowing to the pressure from dozens of teachers who demonstrated outside the courthouse over the attack to make an example of his client.

The incident took place in March 2017 at a school in the town of Mably, near Roanne.

On noticing a bump on her daughter’s head, the Elmaz lashed out at the teacher.

The teacher said she was “shocked” by the verdict.

In court she claimed she was acting in self-defence after being hit by the teacher — claims refuted by witnesses.