All the schools in France stopped yesterday to pay tribute to Samuel Paty, a history and geography teacher assassinated by a young Chechen jihadist for showing the Charlie Hebdo cartoons to his class.
A tribute that was disrupted in 98 schools, counted the Ministry of National Education.
LiveLIVE - Assassination of Samuel Paty: "We have been far too silent on secularism in recent decades", according to Blanquer
On RTL Saturday morning, Jean-Michel Blanquer, Minister of National Education, described these incidents as "
very variable
": insults above all but all the same "
7 cases of threats, individual or collective, which will be the subject of the most severe penalties
”.
"
We will summon the families, and see what is behind these words,
" he added.
"Compared to everything that had happened after Charlie Hebdo and the Bataclan, or when last year we had a minute of silence, it is in very clear decline"
Jean-Michel Blanquer, Minister of National Education
Despite these incidents, "
This commemoration took place in great calm, serenity and dignity,
" he said. “
There are 60,000 schools and schools in France,
he said on France 2
. Compared to everything that had happened after Charlie Hebdo and the Bataclan, or when last year we had a minute of silence, it is down sharply
”.
The Minister also returned to the situation of teachers faced with questions of secularism: "
They are not sufficiently trained to tackle these subjects," he
underlines.
Before, secularism was something explicit and shared by everyone.
Perhaps we haven't talked enough about it.
There is a slope to go up, and I consider that we are at the beginning of this slope
”.
To read also In Conflans, a year after the assassination of Samuel Paty, the concern remains keen
At the end of the morning, a plaque in tribute to the history and geography teacher will be inaugurated at the entrance of the Ministry of National Education.
Samuel Paty's parents will be present and then received at the Élysée by the President of the Republic.
A ceremony is also planned in his college in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, as well as an inauguration of a square in his name in Paris, in front of the Sorbonne.
