When politics and populism enter a classroom, education and knowledge leave on tiptoe. In the 5th year of secondary school, young Hamza, a 15-year-old teenager, learned it to his cost. His history and geography teacher simply made him guilty of his family origins, going so far as to call his family traitors to the Nation, heirs to the "crocodiles and demons" of Morocco that Abdelilah Benkirane has constantly invoked to justify the failures of his government and his inability to lead reforms.

At the beginning is "Al Maassoul", the famous work of Mokhtar Soussi and four lines on the battle of Sidi Bouathmane in the R'hamna and in which Caïd Layadi took part, on the order of the Sultan of the time. The lesson of that day is devoted to this point of history. The history teacher of the Houmane El Fatouaki high school, in Inezgane, then feels invested with a mission, that of rewriting a complicated history of Morocco before independence. In his class, he makes a point of revisiting the history of the protectorate and the resistance, at the turn of four lines taken out of their context and historical perspective. We are not far from the revisionism fashionable in our country. The teacher knows it: among his students, he counts the great-grandson of Caïd Layadi. A godsend to conduct a witch hunt and erect a pyre for what he probably considers to be the heir to these "traitors" that he denounces in his class. "The Layadis are traitors and thieves. They have plundered Morocco. They have hectares and hectares of land that they have despoiled. Moreover, this family continues to rage until today. They are the famous crocodiles and demons. The granddaughter of Caïd Layadi is a PAM deputy," insists the teacher in what is no longer a history lesson for young adolescents preparing for the baccalaureate but an indictment against a family and an opposition party.

Young Hamza, the great-grandson of Caid Layadi, tries to stop the massacre and silence this teacher visibly on a campaign. In front of his classmates, he says that there is no question of questioning his aunt, Fatiha Layadi, in this way, since it is she who is involved and after his great-grandfather had been, a few minutes earlier, seriously incriminated. The teacher does not hear it that way. Little do the family ties of his student or the defamatory accusations he has made matter: these truths must be told.

Hamza's family has of course reacted strongly. His father contacted the director of this school. His son, a teenager, was seriously exposed to score-settling typical of a teacher, who, we will learn later, is close to the PJD, the party of the head of government. "How will he be able to face the gaze of his classmates after all these heavy accusations that have been made against his great-grandfather and his aunt and this by a teacher, in the middle of a history lesson? Will this story leave traumatic after-effects on my son?", the father asked in substance to the director of the Houmane El Fatouaki high school.

Fatiha Layadi, the deputy and aunt of Hamza, informed the Minister of National Education of this incident of extreme gravity. "I could have gone to court like any citizen who would have been defamed. This teacher can have the political opinions of his choice but let him leave them at the door of his class," she declared to "Libération".

Mohamed El Ouafa did send an inspection to this school. His report has not yet been made public. The history teacher in question, for his part, persists and signs by organising, Wednesday, a sit-in in front of the high school and by circulating a petition of solidarity. A way to claim his right to defame and insult.

For the moment, no one has worried about the feelings of a 15-year-old student, in full adolescence, and whose family has been targeted by a teacher who cheerfully mixes history, politics and score-settling. Within the Houmane El Fatouaki high school, no one from the teaching staff has expressed solidarity with Hamza either. In these times of populism where accusations, defamation and insults are the only "political" perspective, it is true that it is easier to shoot at crocodiles and demons rather than support a student who has the fault – in the eyes of his history teacher – of being the great-grandson of Caïd Layadi and the nephew of Fatiha Layadi.