Marine Le Pen went to the Conflans-Sainte-Honorine college on Monday morning, October 19, where Samuel Paty, the history professor murdered Friday, was teaching.
She was accompanied by Jordan Bardella, the spokesperson for the National Rally, and some local elected officials.
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I wanted to pay tribute to this teacher who was assassinated in absolutely appalling conditions by an Islamist fundamentalist because he defended secularism and freedom of expression,
" she declared at the microphone of BFMTV.
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I think that the role of any elected representative of the Republic is to participate in this tribute.
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A professor beheaded for having presented the Charlie Hebdo cartoons: in France we are at this level of unbearable barbarism.
Islamism is waging a war on us: it is by force that we must drive it out of our country,
”reacted the president of the National Rally Friday evening on Twitter to the announcement of the attack.
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