The information, revealed by the newspaper La Libre Belgique, was confirmed to the French Agency by the spokesperson of the mayor of Molenbeek, the district of Brussels where the events took place.
According to spokesman Rashid Barghouti, "two or three parents" protested to the elementary school management that a sketch showing the prophet's genitals was presented "to 5th and 6th graders".
In a lesson on freedom of expression, after the assassination this month of a French teacher who showed his students sketches of the Prophet Muhammad, a teacher in Belgium decided to show one of these sketches, already published in Charlie Hebdo . After the school principal was informed about the incident, he reported it to the competent supervisory body, ie the municipal council.
The teacher "testified before the mayor and the city council on Thursday and resigned," Barghouti explained. "This is not a sanction, it was due to the initiation of disciplinary proceedings," he added.
A new hearing before the city council is scheduled for next Thursday, in order to decide on the possibility of imposing sanctions.
"Our decision is based solely on the fact that these are obscene images, if it were not for the prophet, we would have made the exact same decision," said spokeswoman Catherine Moore.
Molenbeek, with a population of about 100.000, has a large Moroccan community. It had gained a reputation as a "hotbed" of jihadism in Europe when the investigation into the November 13, 2015 Paris attacks, which killed 130 people, showed that many perpetrators came from there.
