Brigitte Macron pays tribute to Samuel Paty, the history and geography teacher assassinated on Friday in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, in a letter entrusted to the
Parisian on
Tuesday, October 20.
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“
Today, with you, we are all teachers
”, writes the wife of the Head of State, herself a former teacher.
"
To be a teacher (...) It is to transmit and anticipate (...) It is to enter a class and to feel in its right place (...) It is to develop the critical spirit (of students) to make them free (...) It is spotting a light that we have been able to light in the eyes of the students, it is also noticing when they drop out and going to pick them up,
”she continues.
“
All of this, Samuel, you knew, and better yet, you embodied it.
Because you had the highest idea of what the teaching profession is.
Your family has testified to us, to the President of the Republic and to myself, of your great demands and your extreme tolerance.
Their dignity overwhelmed us
, ”she wrote.
Contact case, she will not be able to participate in the tribute ceremony
Brigitte Macron, contact case of a person infected with Covid-19, will not be able to participate in the tribute ceremony to Samuel Paty on Wednesday in the courtyard of La Sorbonne.
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Four days after the attack, investigators are trying to reconstruct the complete chain of facts that led to the savage murder of Professor Samuel Paty, to whom tributes are paid in the National Assembly and around his college in Yvelines.
The anti-terrorism police are particularly interested in messages exchanged on the WhatsApp messaging between the assailant and the student's parent, currently in custody, who had called for mobilization after the course on freedom of expression given by Samuel Paty on October 5.