The plate, in the Samuel-Paty square which is located in Paris opposite La Sorbonne, was degraded two months after its inauguration. The word “Islamist” in the mention “victim of Islamist terrorism” has been crossed out.
“The reference to the ‘Islamist’ character of the terrorist act committed against Samuel Paty” has been “bomb erased“, indicated this Tuesday the mayor (DVD) of the 5th arrondissement Florence Berthout. She denounces a “unacceptable degradation“. “Wanting to remove the Islamist character of this heinous act is unbearable“, added the mayor of Ve, who indicates that he has filed a complaint.
The day before, Nicolas Gavrilenko, treasurer of the Union of Secular Families (Ufal), had pointed out the “vandalized” plate, an act which, according to him, signs “the willful blindness of some“. “It is indeed Islamist terrorism of which Samuel Paty was the victim“, he added.
City services restored the plaque today.
“The Samuel Paty plaque, victim of terrorism, has been defaced”tweeted in the afternoon Emmanuel Grégoire, first PS deputy to PS mayor Anne Hidalgo, denouncing an “unacceptable” act and announcing that the City will also file a complaint.
Square Samuel Paty was inaugurated on October 16, one year to the day after the attack which cost the life of the professor. He was beheaded by Abdoullakh Anzorov, a radicalized young man who accused him of having shown caricatures of Muhammad to his students, on October 16, 2020 near his college in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine. (Yvelines)
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