By an unfortunate coincidence, the college of Battières, in Lyon, on strike for two days, is where Samuel Paty, the professor assassinated on October 16, 2020 in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine (Yvelines), began his career shortly before 2000. Teachers from this relatively socially advantaged public college, located in the city's 5th arrondissement, quickly established a “
symbolic
”
link
between this terrorist affair and the verbal assault suffered by one of their own in November.
A week after the tribute paid to Samuel Paty, a history and geography teacher from Les Battières gave a course on freedom of expression, in accordance with the school curricula, to a fifth grade class.
He explained, among other things, that Emmanuel Macron was not "
Islamophobic
" and that his words had been distorted, contrary to what a student asked him during an exchange of questions and answers.
“
Two boys, twins who had just arrived from abroad and spoke poor French,
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