L'anecdote serait drôle si les conséquences n'étaient pas si énorme. Ce matin, plusieurs articles évoquent l'histoire d'un enseignant américain qui aurait été arrêté à cause d'un roman de science fiction. L'histoire est un rien plus complexe...
En 2011, Patrick McLaw, un jeune prof américain de 21 ans a publié un roman de science fiction en numérique, The Insurrectionist, dans lequel il imaginait en 2902 la mort de 947 personnes dans une école, tuées par une ou plusieurs personnes. Embauché en 2013 dans le collège Maces Lane, à Cambridge (Maryland), il a été arrêté la semaine dernière par la police, soumis a des examens médicaux d'urgence et interdit de se rendre dans son établissement ou à proximité. Son livre serait en cause mais également une lettre envoyée à l'école. Il s'agit pour la police de mesures de précaution. Aucune bombe, ni arme n'a été trouvé chez lui. L'enquête se poursuit pour le moment pour déterminer s'il s'agit juste d'un prof à l'imagination débordante ou d'un dangereux futur terroriste... Voici un extrait d'un article du site The Atlantic qui a un envoyé spécial là bas.
"From our perspective, this was more about a health concern about Mr. McLaw than about a security issue," Maciarello said. Authorities grew concerned about McLaw after he sent a "four-page letter" to a school administrator over the summer. According to Maciarello, the letter contained no threats against schools or school personnel, but that it indicated that McLaw was not mentally sound. "Health care professionals were concerned, he was in a relationship that had just come to an end, he was talking about his mother as being overbearing, there was some thought that he could be a threat to himself." Based on the "totality of the circumstances," Maciarello said, McLaw was involuntarily committed for evaluation. Among those circumstances: Authorities said that McLaw had built a model of a school building in his home, and had asked an administrator to move classrooms, to one near the "point of ingress and egress" of the school.
"From our perspective, this was more about a health concern about Mr. McLaw than about a security issue," Maciarello said. Authorities grew concerned about McLaw after he sent a "four-page letter" to a school administrator over the summer. According to Maciarello, the letter contained no threats against schools or school personnel, but that it indicated that McLaw was not mentally sound. "Health care professionals were concerned, he was in a relationship that had just come to an end, he was talking about his mother as being overbearing, there was some thought that he could be a threat to himself." Based on the "totality of the circumstances," Maciarello said, McLaw was involuntarily committed for evaluation. Among those circumstances: Authorities said that McLaw had built a model of a school building in his home, and had asked an administrator to move classrooms, to one near the "point of ingress and egress" of the school.
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