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Assassination of Samuel Paty: teachers refuse to be “lay martyrs”

2020-10-20T18:13:14.238Z


TESTIMONIALS - Before the ceremony in tribute to the teacher killed on Friday, the teachers oscillate between fatalism and dismay.


Will there be a before and after October 16, 2020 at school?

While a tribute is paid this Wednesday to their colleague, Samuel Paty, in the courtyard of the Sorbonne, the teachers are both revolted by this tragedy and unanimously fatalistic:

"It had to happen", "it was inevitable", "I thought it would happen even sooner,"

they say of his murder.

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Already, after September 11, 2001, disputes flourished.

Annie, professor of history and geography, remembers the minute's silence at her college in Essonne.

“Students were applauding and the principal was having a hard time bringing order,” she

says.

She also remembers the inscriptions on the walls of her establishment:

"Soon, it will be with us"

.

“We've been dragging this on for too long.

I may be a coward, but I have never shown caricatures of Muhammad, for fear of offending some students

, she explains.

I think they are not able to understand, given the

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Source: lefigaro

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