The plaque in Square Samuel-Paty located in Paris, opposite the Sorbonne, has been degraded.
The word "Islamist" was crossed out in the mention "victim of Islamist terrorism", two months after the inauguration in tribute to the murdered professor.
"The reference to the
Islamist
nature
of the terrorist act committed against Samuel Paty" was "bombed out", said Tuesday the mayor (DVD) of the fifth arrondissement of the capital, Florence Berthout, denouncing a " unacceptable degradation ”.
Monday, Nicolas Gavrilenko, treasurer of the Union of secular families (Ufal), reported the plaque "vandalized", an act which, according to him, signs "the willful blindness of some".
"It is indeed the Islamist terrorism of which Samuel Paty was a victim," he added.
“Wanting to suppress the Islamist character of this heinous act is unbearable,” adds Florence Berthout, who indicates that she has filed a complaint.
City services restored the plaque on Tuesday, she said.
The square was inaugurated on October 16, one year to the day after the attack which claimed the life of the professor.
In particular were present his family, the mayor PS of Paris Anne Hidalgo and the ministers of Education Jean-Michel Blanquer and Higher Education Frédérique Vidal.
The beheading of Samuel Paty, 47, on October 16, 2020 near his college in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine (Yvelines) by Abdoullakh Anzorov, a young radicalized who accused him of having shown caricatures of Muhammad to his students, aroused considerable emotion.
