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Tribute to Samuel Paty and Dominique Bernard, reinforced security... A special Monday for students and teachers

10/15/2023, 7:44:36 PM

Highlights: Three years to the day after the assassination of Samuel Paty, and three days after the attack that took the life of Dominique Bernard, in Arra. "It's hard to teach when you're traumatized," says Christophe, a teacher in Versailles (Yvelines) The country's 853,000 teachers are returning to class in a heavy atmosphere. The alleged perpetrator is a 20-year-old Russian, who has been charged with the murder of Paty and Bernard.


Three years to the day after the assassination of Samuel Paty, and three days after the attack that took the life of Dominique Bernard, in Arra

"It's hard to teach when you're traumatized." A teacher in Versailles (Yvelines), Christophe admits to being "afraid" since Friday, October 13 and the death of Dominique Bernard, the French teacher stabbed in front of his high school in Arras (Pas-de-Calais), an attack whose alleged perpetrator is a 20-year-old Russian. This Monday, three years to the day after the murder of Samuel Paty, a teacher from Conflans-Sainte-Honorine (Yvelines), who was also stabbed to death by a radicalized 18-year-old man, the country's 853,000 teachers are returning to class in a heavy atmosphere.

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