The Minister of Education participated, on Saturday, in a ceremony at the Sorbonne devoted to Professor Désapité for having shown Muhammad caricatures to his students.
Le Monde With AFP
Two years after the assassination of Samuel Paty, the Minister of Education, Pap Ndiaye, paid tribute to the professor, Saturday October 15. The Islamists “have not succeeded and will not succeed” in “deleting intelligence and the very possibility of teaching”, he declared, visibly moved, during a tribute to the Sorbonne.
“Whether we have known him or not, Samuel Paty is missing, because we know that (…) Hope and the consideration he had for young people are part of those forces that keep the Republic together, make it more tolerant “and” prepare the citizens of tomorrow, “added the minister during this ceremony organized in an amphitheater in the Sorbonne – where a room now bears his name – by the association of history and geography teachers (APHG). “Two years later, the trauma is still there,” said Pap Ndiaye at the exit.
“Explain and not be silent”
Regarding tributes organized in schools, Friday, October 14 or Monday, October 17, the minister “delighted that very few incidents were recorded” Friday. “We count eighteen nationally, it is much less than last year,” he said, stressing that his ministry intended to show “firmness” in the face of incidents, but also “Transparency”: “We do not put the dust under the carpet.”
“Teach is to explain and not be silent,” said Mickaëlle Paty, the teacher’s sister, who dedicated her speech “to all dead people, injured, tortured or incarcerated for daring “.
Three classes of college students, who worked during the 2021-2022 school year on the theme of freedom of expression, were awarded the first Samuel-Paty prize, awarded by APHG. The class of the Marie-Mauron college in Pertuis (Vaucluse) investigated the religious intolerance passed in its region, in the form of podcasts devoted to the massacre of “Vaudois du Luberon” which made some 3,000 Protestant victims, in the 16th E century. For the second edition of the Prize, middle and high school students are invited to work this year on the theme of false news and the danger they represent for democracy. 2>
the tribute of Eric Zemmour
Samuel Paty, professor of history-geography, was beheaded on October 16, 2020 near his college in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine (Yvelines), at 47, by a young radicalized who reproached him for showing Caricatures of Muhammad to his students.
Earlier in the morning, Eric Zemmour, president of the Reconquet far right movement !, Had gathered a few hundred sympathizers at Square Samuel-Paty, near the Sorbonne, and said of the assassination of the teacher that It was an “avoidable Francocide”, the culmination of a “continuum of violence”.