On October 16, 2020, history and geography professor Samuel Paty, 47, was beheaded in the street on his way home from Conflans-Sainte-Honorine college where he taught.
His assassin, a Russian refugee of Chechen origin, had had time to boast of having
“avenge the Prophet Mohammed”
on social networks before being shot dead by the police.
It was not another attack in the long list of crimes perpetrated on our soil in the name of Islam.
Islamist barbarism had just struck the Republic in the heart, this
“Republic which is reborn every day in the classrooms”,
as Emmanuel Macron was to say during the national tribute paid to Samuel Paty in the courtyard of the Sorbonne.
Emmanuel Macron moved by the coffin of the murdered professor, in the courtyard of the Sorbonne.
Romain GAILLARD/REA
The President's words were equal to the immense shock felt by all French people.
Among them, Stéphane Simon.
The producer of Thierry Ardisson, co-founder with Michel Onfray of the magazine
Front populaire,
is the descendant of a line of “black hussars” who came to teach the Republic…
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