The President of the Republic delivered a speech in tribute to Samuel Paty on Wednesday evening in the courtyard of the Sorbonne.
The history and geography professor of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine (Yvelines) was assassinated on Friday by a radicalized young Chechen, a few days after having shown caricatures of Muhammad in progress.
"I would like my life and my death to be used for something," he had once said, as if by foreknowledge.
So why was Samuel killed?
", Asked the president, before continuing:" Because he embodied the Republic, which is reborn every day in the classrooms, Samuel Paty was killed because the Islamisms want our future and they know that with quiet heroes like him, they'll never get it.
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"This fight for freedom and for reason, of which you are now the face, because we owe it to you", continued Emmanuel Macron, "because we owe it to ourselves, because in France, professor, the enlightenment does not never go out, ”he concluded.