This is, for the moment, a still provisional assessment… But 78 “disturbances and protests” of the times of tribute to teachers Samuel Paty and Dominique Bernard organized on Monday in middle and high schools were recorded on Tuesday by the Ministry of National education. The government specifies that “last year, at the same time”, it had identified “230” during the tributes.
A minute of silence was organized in middle and high schools in France in memory of these two teachers murdered by radicalized Islamists. Prime Minister Michel Barnier went Monday afternoon to the Bois d’Aulne college, in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine in Yvelines, where Samuel Paty taught.
According to the ministry, “with regard to the disturbances and protests identified, disciplinary sanctions are initiated in 100% of cases” and “there will be a referral to the prosecutor in the most serious cases”, it was added. A new updated assessment should be made by the end of the week.
605 sanctions in 2013
Last year, a total of 605 sanctions, including 85 permanent exclusions from the school, were pronounced during disciplinary councils after the incidents which punctuated the tributes to the two teachers. There were 454 exclusions in total: 85 permanent exclusions from the establishment, 322 temporary and 47 permanent suspended suspensions.
Samuel Paty, aged 47, was stabbed then beheaded by Abdoullakh Anzorov, a Russian refugee of Chechen origin, on October 16, 2020 near his college. The 18-year-old young man, a radicalized Muslim, criticized him for showing caricatures of Mohammed in class.
The emotion caused by this attack was reignited by the assassination, on October 13, 2023, of Dominique Bernard, 57, stabbed to death by Mohammed Mogouchkov, a former student registered for Islamist radicalization, in front of his establishment in Arras.
