After the national ceremony on October 21, Samuel Paty, the professor of history and geography assassinated in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine in October by a terrorist, will have his name on a street sign, in a square, in a garden… in the capital.
It was the Paris En Commun group, chaired by the socialist Rémi Féraud, which made this proposal.
"The strength of the symbol requires it and can bring us together", underlined the socialist senator while a few minutes earlier, at the opening of the session of the Council of Paris, the elected officials of Paris respected a minute of silence in memory of the murdered professor for to have shown, as part of a course on secularism, caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.
A debate and hiccups
The PEC group's proposal was passed unanimously.
But a small dissonance somewhat tense the mayor of Paris and sowed confusion on the benches of the hemicycle.
The elected ecologists, through the voice of their group president Fatoumata Koné, regretted that the Paris Council does not respect the rule according to which the decision of the name of a Parisian place should not be taken in haste and that it was not until five years had passed after the death of a person for the capital to pay tribute to him by giving his name to a Parisian place.
A reservation that the mayor of Paris did not really appreciate.
Anne Hidalgo regretted that this remark by the president of the EELV group "on an event as major as the beheading of a professor in the context of a terrorist attack" does not allow all the elected officials to meet.
Are environmentalists wrongly pointed out?
Then the vote count announced in a somewhat confused way, 141 votes and 20 abstentions.
Abstentions that several right-wing elected officials immediately attributed to environmentalists in view of the intervention of their president.
On Twitter and behind the scenes, many were “moved” by this position.
The mayors (LR) of the sixteenth and seventeenth quickly castigated the vote of environmentalists Geoffroy Boulard qualifying as "shameful" the attitude of elected green.
“This vote shows that the fight against Islamism is not unanimous in Paris.
Anne Hidalgo must clarify her emergency alliances ”
Except that there was "a technical error" in the counting of the votes, as the city of Paris quickly told us.
“We voted for Rémi Féraud's wish.
We just issued a reminder to the 5-year deadline, ”insists Fatoumata Koné, the president of the environmental group in Paris.
"This right-wing controversy is nauseous", enraged David Belliard, ex EELV candidate for mayor of Paris and assistant to Anne Hidalgo in charge of travel.
The 16th century mayor Francis Szpiner finally clarified on Twitter “in fine, the Greens voted for the most part.
Of which act ”.