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Tribute to Samuel Paty in his city, his college and at the Elysée

2021-10-16T02:33:30.350Z


In Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, during a rare speech, teachers from the college of Bois d'Aulne, where Samuel Paty taught, will deliver a speech.


One year to the day after his assassination, tributes to Professor Samuel Paty take place on Saturday, October 16 in the Val-d'Oise, where he lived, in the Yvelines, where he taught, and in Paris, where his family will be received in the Elysee.

From 10:30 am, in the entrance of the Ministry of National Education, must be inaugurated

"a plaque which will forever pay homage to Samuel Paty"

, in the words of Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer.

Prime Minister Jean Castex and other members of the government will be present alongside the parents and family of Samuel Paty.

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At the beginning of the afternoon, in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine (Yvelines), during a rare speech, teachers from the college of Bois d'Aulne, where Samuel Paty taught, will deliver a speech, in particular in front of students and parents, the former principal of the establishment and the Minister of National Education.

Already on Friday, countless schools, colleges and high schools across France had honored the memory of the history-geography teacher, brutally murdered on October 16, 2020 - stabbed and beheaded - for showing caricatures of Muhammad to his students during a course on freedom of expression.

It was in a street in Eragny-sur-Oise (Val-d'Oise) that the attack occurred, just a few hundred meters from the teacher's college.

Residents of this town of nearly 16,000 inhabitants where Samuel Paty, father of a little boy, lived, must meet in the middle of the morning.

Neighbors and friends are expected there, according to the town hall.

At 3 p.m., the town hall of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine will unveil a book-shaped monument in one of the city's central squares.

Samuel Paty's family will then be received by Emmanuel Macron at the Élysée.

Finally, a square located opposite the Sorbonne, rue des Ecoles, will be renamed Square Samuel Paty, during a ceremony that the mayor of Paris wants to be simple and collected.

He "wanted to change things through ordinary action"

In an interview with

La Croix

this week, one of Samuel Paty's sisters, Gaëlle, described him as a teacher

"who did not seek to revolutionize the whole earth"

but

"wanted to change things through ordinary action" .

For a year, the traumatized teachers of the college of Bois d'Aulne, solicited by the media, had remained silent. But the commemoration approaching, seven of the fifty teachers of the college agreed this week to tell

Liberation

and France Inter

"their Samuel Paty"

, involved with his students and always ready to debate with his colleagues:

"a human being like the others "

And not

" the kind of myth "

that the attack made him become in spite of himself, said one of them.

After the attack, many teachers at the college asked for work stoppages.

"Up to fifteen teachers may have been absent simultaneously,"

indicates the rectorate of Versailles, which has put in place a hotline until the end of October.

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During the tribute in the establishment, students will recite slams written around freedom. Friday, they were notably invited to read their poems about their teacher.

“Those poems were good, but it makes me think it would be good to be with him again. I would have liked to get to know him better

,

Guillaume *, 14, who had Samuel Paty as his main teacher last year told AFP on Friday. The college community was also struck by the fact that five students, aged 13 to 15 at the time of the facts, were indicted on suspicion of having designated the teacher to his murderer.

The attack was

"an upheaval in several respects"

and its

"repercussion remains considerable"

, notes Jean-Jacques Brot, prefect of Yvelines.

From a security point of view,

"this involved a leap in the thinking of all the services, whether it be the Ministry of the Interior or National Education, in terms of information, analysis or forecasting"

.

Source: lefigaro

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