In the portrait of Audrey Crespo-Mara broadcast on the program “Sept à Huit”, the sister of the teacher murdered by a radicalized Islamist regrets the lack of response from the State. She would like to recognize France’s responsibility in this assassination.
The sister of Samuel Paty, a teacher killed in October 2020 by a young radicalized Islamist, near his college in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine (Yvelines), expressed her anger towards the French state in front of the cameras of “Sept à Huit » from TF1. In the portrait of Audrey Crespo-Mara broadcast this Sunday evening, Mickaëlle Paty pointed out “the absence of a response from the State to obtain official recognition of the State’s responsibility in the occurrence of the attack”.
On March 15, she sent a letter to Prime Minister Gabriel Attal, to the Minister of National Education Nicole Belloubet and to the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin, in order to obtain “the official recognition of the responsibility of the State in the occurrence of the attack”. But no response arrived in the two months that followed, the legal deadline, and she took the matter to administrative justice. “I find myself attacking the State in the absence of a response from the State, justifies the teacher’s sister. They had a deadline to respond to me, and it was made official a long time ago that they were going to respond to me. But the deadline has arrived, and there is no response. Nobody answered me. Person.”
During the interview, the nurse anesthetist, mother of two children, regrets that the conclusions of the administrative investigation requested by the Minister of Education in office at the time of the events, Jean-Michel Blanquer. “According to this report, no one has failedshe squeaks. They made no mistake. The hardest part was that it made my brother look naive, which he absolutely was not, and that he was also responsible for the events.» Very moved, Mickaëlle Paty also recounted her exchanges with Emmanuel Macron shortly after the tragedy: “I told him: ”Mr. President, if there is one person in our family who should have been sitting across from you, it is my brother. You would have had to learn from him.»
Trial of eight adults from November 12 to December 20
Samuel Paty, a 47-year-old history and geography professor, was stabbed then beheaded by Abdoullakh Anzorov, a Russian refugee of Chechen origin, on October 16, 2020. The 18-year-old man, radicalized, accused him of having shown class of caricatures of Mohammed. Before being killed by the police, he took responsibility for his actions by congratulating himself on having “avenged the prophet”.
Agents of National Education and territorial intelligence in Yvelines were nevertheless informed of the virulent campaign on social networks around Samuel Paty’s course, but the latter had not been protected.
Ten members of Samuel Paty’s family filed a complaint in April 2022 against the administration, which they accuse of not having protected the professor. A judicial investigation was opened by the Paris prosecutor’s office for failure to assist a person in danger and failure to prevent a crime.
In this case, six college students have already been sentenced to sentences ranging from 14 months in prison to six months in prison – placed under an electronic bracelet – on December 9, 2023 for their involvement in the assassination. The trial of eight adults accused is scheduled before the special assize court of Paris, from November 12 to December 20. “I don’t expect much from the accused”admits Mickaëlle Paty.
