She retraces the events leading to the assassination of her brother on October 16, 2020 near the college where he taught, in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine (Yvelines), 11 days after giving a course on freedom of expression. “From now on, the alibi of caricatures or the veil is no longer even necessary for them to attack the school, we have had sad proof of this with Dominique Bernard. Being a teacher is enough to put you in the sights of these fundamentalists,” she adds, calling for the establishment of “a real public policy for the promotion of our values, and not just for their defense.”
“Series of renunciations”
For her, Samuel Paty “died because in the face of the Islamist offensive, for years we have only produced a series of renunciations that we thought were unimportant, but which, put end to end, have built a system “. While the Paris special assize court will judge eight people involved in the assassination of Samuel Paty from November 4, Mickaëlle Paty says “expect from this judicial moment the reestablishment of the truth on the course of (s) we brother, but also the exposure of Islamism as a political project against which we must fight.”
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“The situation has become so critical that we can no longer simply react to attacks. We now need to rearm ourselves ideologically,” she believes. Mickaëlle Paty took legal action in July to have the State’s responsibility recognized in the assassination of her brother.
