Teen beats teacher over lesson on Morocco

A  teenager has been charged with assault after beating up a teacher following a row over a lesson on Morocco, his school said Thursday.

The incident had initially been reported to have been triggered by a lesson on religion that had touched on the subject of Islam.

But Dominique Margueritat, the head of the Tregey Lycee in Bordeaux, said: "The row was about the political system in Morocco, the country the pupil comes from. It was a run-of-the-mill kind of thing that you get in teaching, nothing to do with religion."