On October 5, Samuel Paty, professor of history and geography
, gives a course on “the contours and limits of freedom of expression”.
To his fourth grade, the teacher from the Bois d'Aulne college in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, shows two caricatures of Mahomet, published in
Charlie Hebdo
.
The first is the front page of the newspaper, published after the January 2015 attack. The second shows the prophet naked and crouching with a star on his buttocks, accompanied by the text
"a star is born"
.
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On October 6, a student mother contacted the principal of the college
.
She reports that her daughter was
"put aside in the hallway on the pretext that she was a Muslim,"
relates a note dated October 12 from Territorial Intelligence, which was obviously quickly interested in the case.
In fact, the teacher suggested that students who might be shocked
"close their eyes or leave the classroom,"
the note said.
On October 7, on social networks
, a father of a student denounces
"a climate of Islamophobia"
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