Samuel Paty’s sister speaks out after the attack at Arras high school

Three years ago his brother, Samuel Paty, was assassinated in front of his college in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine (Yvelines) by a Russian Islamist of Chechen origin. On this disastrous anniversary, also marked by the assassination of a literature teacher from the Gambetta-Carnot high school in Arras (Pas-de-Calais) which occurred three days earlier, Gaëlle Paty testified this Monday at the microphone of franceinfo by ensuring that he became “too simple» to kill a teacher today.

Gaëlle Paty says she experienced with great emotion the day of Friday October 13, the day when Dominique Bernard, literature teacher in a high school in Arras, was murdered by a former student of the establishment. “I delved back into what I had experienced three years ago. It was a knot in my stomach, a feeling of oppression and that feeling of “once again”», she tells franceinfo. Above all, she claims to have “atoday, a little more rage than three years ago», deploring that “if someone wants to kill a teacher today, it doesn’t have to be an international terrorist organization. It’s too simple, a teacher to kill.»

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While all schools must respect a minute of silence this Monday in memory of Dominique Bernard, Gaëlle Paty would like to emphasize that “Faced with the tragedy that shook our family, the signs of support, whether from the State, from the population, from our friends, from our colleagues, are what keeps us going at the start.» Nevertheless, Samuel Paty’s sister remains hardly optimistic in the face of the scale of the problem which she does not see.solution“.