THE FIGARO EDITORIAL – The investigations highlight, today, the institutional flaws which accompanied the tragedy.
Could Samuel Paty have been saved? This question, or rather this unbearable and haunting torment, hangs over the trial of his executioners which opens today in Paris. On October 16, 2020, France was shocked to discover the assassination of one of its teachers, beheaded by a Chechen refugee as he left school. The school was called a “sanctuary”, it appeared as it had become: a place of submission, more than of emancipation.
The Republic was outraged, the government “mobilized”. Candles, tributes, speeches. Then, to the name of Samuel Paty, it was soon necessary to add a second, that of Dominique Bernard, a literature teacher stabbed three years later in front of his high school in Arras. The rare words spoken by his assassin, whose family was to be expelled some time before, were devoted to spewing his hatred of France. New candles, other tributes, same speeches.
“If my brother’s death had…
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