Always as responsive to the news, the series "Plus belle la Vie" will pay tribute this Wednesday to Samuel Paty, the teacher beheaded last Friday in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine (Yvelines).
Shot on Tuesday, a special sequence was integrated into the episode broadcast tonight at 8:20 pm on France 3. It brings together Blanche Marci, the French and art history teacher embodied by Cécilia Hornus, Coralie, her colleague who teaches math (played by Coralie Audret) and the principal Rochat (Charles Schneider).
Emus, the three of them are discussing recent events in the staff room.
"It's the best place to pay homage to Samuel Paty," Blanche then launches.
" Yes.
I can't stop thinking about it.
It could have happened to one of us, ”replies Rochat, the manager of Scotto high school in Marseille fiction.
And Blanche to mention "the civic education course on freedom of expression" that she gave two weeks earlier.
A series that sticks to the news
But no question of letting go, for the heroes of the soap opera of the Three.
"We will face up", they assure.
"We will continue for our children, for freedom of expression, for freedom to educate," even says the headmaster.
It has never been so difficult to be a teacher, but it has never been more necessary.
Thank you for believing it again, thank you Samuel Paty for believing it to the end.
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"Plus belle la Vie" had already bounced on the news on several occasions, in particular to pay tribute to the victims of the attacks committed in Paris on November 13, 2015. Last March, the plot about a mysterious and disturbing virus, imagined by the screenwriters a year earlier, had anticipated the Covid-19 epidemic.