“I haven't slept all night, it's terrifying.
This resident of Eragny-sur-Oise (Val-d'Oise) still cannot believe it.
This Friday, October 16, in the evening, while the story of the attack on Conflans-Sainte-Honorine (Yvelines) turns on all the news channels, she discovers that the murdered teacher, Samuel Paty, is no other than its neighbor.
“It all turned me around!
I still see this gentleman who was there a few days ago unloading the groceries from his car with his little boy.
He was a discreet person, but very good, he always said hello.
I think he was a little shy, and he looked younger than his age.
What happened to him is chilling, it's horror!
"
For at least a year, Samuel Paty, 47, had made his mark in the residential area of Grillon in Eragny.
He lived on the second floor of a small apartment building with his 5 year old son.
This Saturday, the apartment is empty of any occupant.
The shutter is completely closed.
“There is no one, confirms his only neighbor on the next floor.
I believe his partner no longer lives there.
"" For several months, they had been separated, confirms Dhaou, the manager of the bakery Au Cœur des Petits Pains where Samuel took his bread every day.
I knew them well, they are adorable, especially their little boy.
"
"It's a small town, we're in shock"
In recent hours, the excitement has seized the whole neighborhood.
"You saw, that's where the cops shot, I was shocked," a teenager says to her girlfriend, pointing to the corner of the street where the assailant was shot after having fled.
"Frankly, it's awful what happened, moreover I came to see my mother to cheer her up", confides a young man passing by.
"It's disgusting," breathes David, in the middle of a discussion with Yanis.
We talk about it a lot among us, because it's a small town, we are in shock.
Me, I am from the community of Travelers, Christian, Yanis is a Muslim, but everyone lives together and respects each other.
How can we get there?
"
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The history-geography teacher is presented as someone “discreet, sympathetic, kind and polite”, words that keep coming back.
Everyone has a thought for his son, "an exceptional kid", whose first name everyone knows at Le Grillon.
"He's a very endearing boy, who looks a lot like his father," says Augustino, a regular at the local café.
Sometimes they would come to have breakfast here on weekends.
Christian himself lives just across from Samuel Paty's.
“Her little one goes to the same class as my son, it's very difficult to explain to him what happened.
"
Outside of his class at the Bois d'Aulne college in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, the 40-year-old liked to hit the ball on the tennis courts.
"He had just registered for the third year, but just for leisure this time," said Eragny club president Didier Colasson.
We didn't know him more than that, but he was a rather discreet and sympathetic person.
"And another licensee to add:" he participated in activities to keep the club alive.
He came to play a lot, two or three times a week.
On Monday, he was still there, on the ground… ”