Ten members of the family of the history-geography professor had filed a complaint at the beginning of April against the administration for “non-crime”.
Le Monde
An investigation was opened in Paris in April for “omission to rescue” following a complaint filed against the administration by ten members of the family of Samuel Paty, murdered in October 2020, A -We we learned, Thursday, June 16, from a source close to the file.
A year and a half after the assassination of Samuel Paty near his college in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine (Yvelines), ten members of his family had filed a complaint in Paris against the administration, whom they deem at fault to Not having protected the professor of history-geography.
“Faults were committed both on the side of national education and on the side of the Ministry of the Interior, without which Samuel Paty could have been saved,” said their council, Virginie Le Roy. Solicited, she did not immediately respond to the France-Presse agency (AFP).
Francis Szpiner, lawyer for the former partner and the son of Samuel Paty, had declared on Twitter at the time of the complaint that the latter had “learned with surprise the filing of a complaint against X for” non-crime “, procedure to which she does not intend to associate itself “. The former companion of the teacher “considers that the Salafist ideology is solely responsible for the death of Samuel Paty and that the State has always, as well as his son, sustained”, he added.
80 pages long, the complaint of M e le Roy targeted the crimes of “non-impression of crime and non-assistance to person in danger” and aimed “several agents from the ministry of The interior and the Ministry of National Education “who have been aware, directly or indirectly, of the situation of Samuel Paty. One of the legal issues should be whether these agents could be aware of the existence of a real, targeted and immediate threat targeting the teacher.
In detail, the complaint recalls the slow gear, started by a course on secularism in the college at the beginning of October 2020, which led to the assassination, on the 167, 47 years old by Abdouallakh Anzorov, Russian refugee of Chechen origin. The young man, radicalized, reproached him for having shown in class caricatures of Muhammad and had claimed his gesture by congratulating himself for having “avenged the prophet”, before being killed by the police.