Gathered on the steps of the Palais Bourbon, all of the deputies, wearing their tricolor scarf and anti-Covid mask on their faces, observed a minute of silence on Tuesday, October 20 in tribute to Professor Samuel Paty, noted a journalist from the 'AFP.
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Against a background of flags at half mast and republican motto displayed in front of the columns of the Palais Bourbon, the President of the Assembly Richard Ferrand (LREM) invited to this minute of silence in memory of this professor "
brutally murdered
".
The Republican Guard then played a few bars of the Marseillaise.
From the far left with Jean-Luc Mélenchon, to the far right with Marine Le Pen, the entire political spectrum was represented.
A new minute of silence is scheduled in the hemicycle at 3:00 p.m. for deputies and government, at the start of the session.
A large part of the questions to the government will be devoted to this Islamist attack that occurred on Friday in the Yvelines.
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At 6.30 p.m., a white march will take place in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, on the eve of the national tribute which will be paid Wednesday from 7.30 p.m. to Samuel Paty in the Court of the Sorbonne in the presence of the Head of State Emmanuel Macron .
Tuesday morning, 16 people were in custody, including five schoolchildren, to understand how the assailant, the 18-year-old Chechen Russian refugee Abdullakh Anzorov, was able to easily find and identify his target before beheading it near his Conflans-Sainte-Honorine establishment.
