the Conflans college should soon take the name of Samuel Paty

New step taken in changing the name of the Conflans-Sainte-Honorine college (Yvelines), four years after the assassination of Samuel Paty by an Islamist terrorist. This Monday, September 30, the municipal council, led by the mayor of Conflans Laurent Brosse (Horizons), voted unanimously in favor of replacing the name “Bois d’Aulne” with that of the history and geography professor. A decision consistent with that taken on September 23 by the board of directors of the school. It is now up to the Yvelines departmental council, the supervisory authority of the college, to decide in turn.

This name change has been requested by many people for a long time. An element that the mayor did not evade during the deliberations of the municipal council. “Four years have passed since the assassination of Samuel Paty. I’ve read here and there that it might seem like a long time from the outside. But it seems to me that the situation is different in the city and within the college. We had to overcome a trauma, students, teachers, management, staff, parents, elected officials”commented Laurent Brosse.

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“I always had in mind the principle that it was preferable, appropriate to wait until the last generation of students who knew Samuel Paty had left the college to consider changing the name. This has been the case since last September. My opinion is that today time has passed, allowed everyone to overcome the trauma and that it is now our duty to honor the memory of Samuel Paty. concluded the councilor before going to the vote.

Several procedures in progress

On the legal front, a first trial has already led to the conviction of six former secondary school students from Bois d’Aulne for their involvement in the assassination of the fifty-year-old. In December 2023, after two weeks of hearings, the Paris children’s court handed down a suspended prison sentence of 18 months to a young girl tried for “slanderous denunciation”. Among the five boys who appeared for “criminal conspiracy to prepare an offense punishable by at least 5 years of imprisonment”, one received two years in prison, including six months under an electronic bracelet, the four others received sentences ranging from 14 to 20 months suspended prison sentence.

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A second trial, this time concerning eight adults, will be held from November 4 to December 20 before the special assize court of Paris. Brahim Chnina, the father of the young girl convicted in December, and Abdelhakim Sefrioui, Islamist activist, will be judged. The latter’s lawyers also held a press conference on September 27 during which they announced that they would plead for acquittal. “From a factual point of view, nothing links Abdelhakim Sefrioui to the attack committed. Nothing establishes that the author of the attack saw the video of October 11, 2020, in which our client requests administrative sanctions with regard to behavior that he considers discriminatory. There is no incitement to hatred or violence.notably estimated M^e Vincent Brengarth.

Finally, several members of the murdered teacher’s family filed a complaint in April 2022 against the administration, which led to the opening by the Paris prosecutor’s office of a judicial investigation for “failure to assist a person in danger” and “failure to prevent crime.” Mickaëlle Paty, the sister of the missing person, also announced through a press release from her lawyer that she had contacted the administrative court of Nice on July 9 in order to “that the responsibility of the State be recognized in the occurrence of the attack against Samuel Paty”. “Basically, this appeal is filed both so that justice is done for Samuel Paty and his family and, on the other hand, so that the State can learn lessons in order to better support the teaching profession and better prevent violence. within educational establishments”notably wrote M^e Carine Chaix.