A Samuel-Paty square will be inaugurated on Saturday opposite the Sorbonne, the Paris Council decided unanimously on Tuesday, October 12, a few days before the first anniversary of the assassination of this history-geo professor for showing caricatures from Muhammad to his students.
The deliberation was adopted by 158 votes out of 163 Paris councilors, five of whom did not speak.
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The assassination of Samuel Paty, "
killed by an Islamist terrorist
" because he "
showed the cartoons to use them and teach him about secularism
", "
traumatized our entire country and created an emotion which today "hui still cannot fall back
", declared the mayor PS Anne Hidalgo. The decision to give its name to the current square Paul-Painlevé, in front of the Hôtel de Cluny and opposite the Sorbonne, "
in the heart of this university Paris
", "
we owed it to all those who want to pay homage to Samuel Paty and who do not want time to come to mitigate this despicable gesture
, ”added the presidential candidate.
Florence Berthout, mayor (DVD) of the 5th arrondissement, also underlined the location in the heart of the Latin Quarter, "the
historical and intellectual cradle of all the great fights which have contributed to forging our democracy
".
Fatoumata Koné (EELV) praised the memory of this "
passionate professor
", a year after his intervention on the same subject which had been at the origin of a crisis between Anne Hidalgo and her environmental allies.
While approving the principle of a place in tribute to Samuel Paty, the president of the EELV group had then deplored that the municipal by-law consisting in waiting five years after the death of a person is "
respected by no Council
", a mention deplored by Anne Hidalgo.