Casse-toi protest earns censure
Teacher at French school in Cairo is repatriated after brandishing 'Casse toi pauvre con' sign during protests
A TEACHER at a French lycée in Cairo has been repatriated after he was filmed brandishing a “Casse toi, pauvre con” sign during recent protests.
The phrase, which roughly translated means “get lost, you loser”, is notorious in France for being uttered by President Sarkozy during a brusque encounter with a farmer in 2008.
The teacher, who has been reprimanded by the Foreign Ministry, told a French television crew that this was the message Sarkozy ought to be giving to Hosni Mubarak, the now former leader of Egypt.
Although his wife and children live in Egypt, the man, officially a French civil servant, was repatriated to France by the Foreign Ministry and banned from exercising his office abroad.
A spokesman for the Foreign Ministry said that, as a civil servant, the teacher had a duty to restrain his behaviour.
Newspaper 20 Minutes said: "The severity of the punishment appears excessive just at a time when the Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary are both engulfed in rows over their holidays in Egypt and Tunisia."
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