"This is an act of unprecedented violence and I want to reiterate that I condemn it in the strongest possible terms," says French Education Minister Anne Genetet, during a visit to a high school in Tourcoing where a student slapped a teacher who had asked her to remove her headscarf as she left the building. Genetet's visit coincides with classes resuming at the school after a two-day suspension following the incident. "Today, the whole country has to support them (teachers)," she says. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES