University professor and columnist for Le Figaro, Jacques de Saint Victor has notably published “Blasphemy: a brief history of an“ imaginary crime ”” (Gallimard, coll. “L'Esprit de la cité”, 2016).
What was to be feared has unfortunately happened.
Now, in France, we can peacefully take a course on freedom of expression and be massacred for showing a caricature of Muhammad.
Beyond this abominable assassination, which obviously relates to terrorism, it is the reactions of certain parents of pupils which pose a crucial question to our country: that of the status of the
"injury to intimate convictions"
.
Water wet, cartoons hurt.
This is their distinctive feature: caricatures are caricatures!
However, some parents of students, relayed by Islamist associations, seem not to want to admit it.
They complained about the gesture of this professor who
"hurt"
their children, one of them not hesitating on the internet to call Samuel Paty a
"thug"
because he simply had
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