The history and geography professor was murdered leaving the college where he taught on October 16, 2020. After 7 weeks of trial, the verdict is expected this Friday, December 20 in the evening.
The sister of Samuel Paty, a history-geography teacher murdered in front of the college where he taught in Yvelines in 2020, believes this Friday, December 20 on BFMTV-RMC that “her brother died for nothing”, while the verdict of the trial of the eight accused is expected in the evening.
“I think my brother died for nothing, but I think we should have done something with his death and for now, I feel like we’re missing out,” he said. she declared.
“At present, the assassination of my brother has meant that there has been a disinhibition on the part of everyone to act with (minimum) verbal and sometimes physical violence,” she regrets.
“There were more slaps given to a teacher a few days ago. All that doesn’t stop,” she recalls, referring to the teacher who was slapped and threatened with death at Marseille Monday December 16. “All in all, it is not fair that we can launch procedures, (…) there must be no more taking action,” she calls, asking for “ sanctions are really up to par.
A “great wait” on the sentences handed down
Mickaëlle Paty expressed her “great expectation” regarding the convictions which must be pronounced in the evening and said she feared being “comforted” in her “fears”, that is to say that the convictions follow the requisitions, that she considers “very weak”.
“If what is proposed (the requisitions editor’s note) is confirmed this evening, I will consider that we have been duped,” she said, calling for consideration of “the other responsibilities” in the death of her brother, namely those “ of the State, of the administration, of some of the colleagues (of Samuel Paty) perhaps”.
Sentences ranging from one and a half years in prison to sixteen years in prison were requested against the eight people tried in Paris for their involvement, to varying degrees, in the assassination of Samuel Paty on October 16, 2020.
“Spend more time being an activist on the ground”
“This trial has perhaps awakened something very positive, it is that there are a lot of people who have mobilized, who have given us their support on social networks or elsewhere,” greeted Michaëlle Paty. .
“I will spend more time being an activist on the ground, going to intervene”, now wishes the sister of Samuel Paty.
Samuel Paty’s sister published a book on October 16, exactly four years after the death of her brother. Mr. Paty’s course (Albin Michel), co-written with the author Emilie Frèche, in which she talks about her “great anger”. “There was no awakening, no start, and our enemies gained further ground,” she wrote.
