Toulouse: a room in the name of Samuel Paty inaugurated
This Friday morning, the great council room of the rectorate of Toulouse was renamed with the name of Samuel Paty in the presence of the rector Mostafa Fourar and many Toulouse high school students.
“We wanted to tell you that, faced with those who would like to silence you and thus plunge us into ignorance, we will always choose the camp of the camp of knowledge and emancipation, if you have given us so much taste. So to you teachers, we say thank you. ” It is with these words that ends the letter written in homage to Samuel Paty by Jules and Martin, two high school students from Toulouse in their final year at the Lycée Fermat. A letter written last November and shared thousands of times on social networks.
“We commemorate Samuel Paty and the values he represents”
This Friday morning, one after the assassination of the teacher by an Islamist terrorist, the two authors read it in public within the rectorate of Toulouse. The institution inaugurated a room in the name of Samuel Paty. “Our generation is used to the attacks, there were those in Toulouse, then those of Charlie Hebdo and Bataclan, but this time, we attacked the base of the Republic: at school, that’s why that we wrote this letter, to continue to preserve this space, ”explains Martin. “This commitment is shared by all of their comrades, says Paul, a first year student in the same establishment. We commemorate Samuel Paty and the values he represents. “” We came to pay tribute to him to show that we are not afraid. What happened to him could have happened to our professor of geographic history, ”also underlines 17-year-old Félicie.
To assess “the defense of the values of secularism”, Mostafa Fourar, the rector of the Toulouse academy insisted on the importance of training. “I launched a training course on secularism and the values of the Republic two days ago. The 40 staff members who will in turn be trained around 40 people. I also wish to remind the teachers who must attempt by self-censorship, which would mean the defeat of the Republic, that a legal pole exists and that we can support them. “