The relatives of the professor, murdered in October 2020, accuse the administration of not having protected it and aim “several agents of the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of National Education”.
Le Monde with AFP
The family of Samuel Paty, murdered in October 2020, filed a complaint, Wednesday, April 6, with the Public Prosecutor’s Office against the Administration, which she considers the foul to have not protected the teacher, announced their Council, Virginie Le Roy, at the France-Press agency (AFP).
“faults were committed so much on the side of the national education and on the side of the Ministry of the Interior, without which Samuel Paty could have been saved,” said M e the king , confirming release information.
The complaint targets the offenses of “non-impediment of crime and non-assistance to person at risk” and targets “several agents of the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of National Education” who had to know directly or indirectly the situation of Samuel Paty.
The “weakest protection (…) would have saved it”
In detail, the complaint reminds the slow gear started by a courses on secularism in a college of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine (Yvelines) at the beginning of October 2020, which resulted in the assassination, on October 16th. , from the 47-year-old professor, stabbed and decapitated, by Abdullakh Anzorov, Russian refugee of Chechen origin, killed shortly after the police. The 18 year old, radicalized, reproached him for showing in class of the caricatures of Muhammad. In an audio message in Russian, he had claimed his gesture by welcoming himself to have “avenged the Prophet”.
For the family, “As of October 8 and until 16, Samuel Paty, the main one and the teachers identified a serious threat to their physical integrity and the safety of the college”, resulting in particular to the media coverage of the Case on social networks by the father of a college member who claimed to have attended the course and by the Islamist militant Abdelhakim Sefrioui.
But for the family, “the agents of the Ministry of the Interior have failed in assistance to Samuel Paty”, who “should have benefited at least the lowest protection”, one or two agents, in view of the “threat” the aiming, which “saved him”.
Failure to monitor social networks
The complaint also aims at several agents of national education, for example in rectorate or college. A report from the general inspection of education dating back to December 2020, leaning on the events in Samuel Paty’s College before his assassination, had felt that the institution had shown responsiveness in its care. a lack of monitoring of social networks.
“Prior to this complaint, Samuel Paty’s family questioned the relevant ministries and asked them for the transmission of several information and documents, she did not obtain any response,” says the complaint. “No comment at this point,” responded to the AFP the Ministry of the Interior.
In the anti-terrorism survey on the assassination, at least fifteen people are indicted, including six college students, the father of the teenager and Mr. Sefrioui. The investigations could be closed by the end of 2022, according to a source close to the file.