Nicole Belloubet rejects any responsibility of the State, and avoids the word “Islamist” Mickaëlle Paty's lawyer, Me Carine Chaix, wrote on March 15 to the Prime Minister as well as to the Ministers of the Interior and National Education, asking them to officially recognize the State's responsibility in the death of Samuel Paty. “There is a minimum of decency to be had for the family” “It adds contempt to the tragedy,” she adds.