It was just four years ago. On October 16, 2020, Samuel Paty, history and geography teacher at a college in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine (Yvelines), was beheaded for showing caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad to his students.
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“The hope of a fairer society”
Wednesday October 16, 2024, at 6 p.m., the Samuel-Paty collective paid tribute to the professor during a ceremony in the eponymous square, opposite the former Val-de-Vire college, as well as to Dominique Bernard, professor of Pas- de-Calais was also the victim of a terrorist attack on October 13, 2023. The collective and various National Education staff sang and read texts in tribute to their two murdered colleagues.
Students from the Jean-Mermoz high school notably demonstrated their “hope for an even more just society concerned with all freedoms, in particular freedom of expression”. Then, addressing Samuel Paty directly, added: “Again this year, the high school students of Jean-Mermoz have not forgotten you. »
