How dangerous this audience was. How uncomfortable was the position of Jeff T., one of the few companions of Samuel Paty who had “ separate » from the professor a few days before his death. how to assume “principled position” What did he do four years ago without giving the impression of criticizing Samuel Paty at the trial for his murder? How to return a “ debate educational » between two history teachers when one ended up decapitated?
“I knew, Jeff T., as he approached the witness stand at the special court in Paris on Wednesday, November 13, that it would be impossible for him to escape this.” trap ” as he says. He hasn’t spoken in four years and won’t speak again. “If I speak today it is because I have no other option.”specify immediately. Islamism seeks to sow confusion, make us lose our values. It is impossible for an argument of mine to go in this direction. »
To understand the origin of the controversy that arose in the teachers’ room at the Bois-d’Aulne school (Yvelines), we must go back to October 5, 2020, eleven days before the attack. That day, Samuel Paty gave a lesson on freedom of expression to a 4th grade class. Taking advantage of the presence of a school assistant, he suggested that willing students go out into the hallway while caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad were shown.
“I haven’t changed my mind.”
The course did not cause any major disturbances, but the mother of one student was still upset with the school principal over the fact that her daughter had felt ” discriminated against “. The next day, Samuel Paty gives the same lesson in front of another class of 4mythat of Z., the schoolgirl through whom the tragedy occurred: this time he suggests to the students that they want to look away. But Z., who was absent that day, lied about the lesson given the day before, telling her parents that she had been excluded for refusing to leave the room.
On October 8, Brahim Chnina, the student’s father, and Islamist activist Abdelhakim Sefrioui, invited themselves to the principal’s office and demanded the teacher’s dismissal. The next day, the principal meets with the university’s four history professors to discuss the confusion created by Mr. Paty’s course, which she supports. And it was on October 10 that Jeff T. expressed his disagreement in an email sent to several teachers: he explained that “dissociate” by Samuel Paty, who according to him “advanced the cause of freedom of expression” and committed a “act of discrimination”.
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