"Today is the time for homage, meditation, astonishment and from tomorrow it will have to be the time for courage because the French are fed up and it cannot last any longer".
Like Karl Olive, mayor of Poissy, they are thousands to have found themselves in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, candles and flowers in hand, in honor of Samuel Paty, brutally murdered on Friday.
Amassed in front of the college Le Bois d'Aulne, where the professor of history and geography taught, the crowd first observed ten minutes of silence.
Then, rounds of applause rang out when the march, guided by local elected officials, moved calmly towards the Place de la Liberté.
Nathalie Allemand, 50, came with her son, of whom Samuel Paty was the main teacher: “It was important to come with my son so that he could digest.
He is shocked, he did not cry, he does not speak ”since the drama.
“He was very close to him.
If he had a concern, he would listen to it.
Nobody deserves this, but him even less ”.
Since the death of this teacher, tributes have multiplied in France, where tens of thousands of people demonstrated on Sunday.
A national tribute will also be paid to him on Wednesday from 7:30 p.m. in the Cour de la Sorbonne in the presence of the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron.
