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Samuel Paty to receive the Legion of Honor posthumously

2020-10-20T08:36:50.707Z


The Minister of National Education, Jean-Michel Blanquer, confirmed it this Tuesday morning on BFM TV. The presentation will take place posthumously during the tribute on Wednesday at the Sorbonne.


Respect and homage.

Samuel Paty, the professor beheaded in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine last Friday for presenting

Charlie Hebdo

caricatures

to his students, will receive the Legion of Honor posthumously.

It will be presented to him during his tribute on Wednesday at the Sorbonne.

"He will be made commander of the academic palms"

, also indicated Jean-Michel Blanquer on BFM TV.

“It's emblematic.

It is the order that goes with the teachers, the world of education.

Once again, his martyrdom is well worth this recognition of the institution, ”

said the Minister of National Education.

"Make a mark" at the start of the school year

Jean-Michel Blanquer also warned that the National Education wanted to

“mark the occasion”

when school started on Monday, November 2, after the All Saints holidays.

“Mark a minute of silence, that goes without saying.

But also to have a whole educational work vis-à-vis the students and we want there to be no blind spot, that it happens in all schools, all colleges, all high schools in France without exception ”,

he claimed.

"Any possible disturbance"

will be sanctioned assured Jean-Michel Blanquer, affirming that the incidents which occurred

"after the Charlie Hebdo attack, and after the Bataclan" will

not occur again.

"

This will be done not only by the teachers, but also by associating other living forces of our country

", he asked, proposing in particular the participation of those

"whose freedom of expression is the profession

" like

" lawyers

”or“

journalists ”

.

As for the presentation or not of the

Charlie Hebdo

cartoons

, the Minister of National Education wanted to cut it short: "

The subject is not to brandish them, the subject is that it must be normal to do so

".

Source: lefigaro

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