The plaque in Square Samuel-Paty located in Paris, opposite La Sorbonne (5th arrondissement), has been degraded with the scratching of the word “Islamist” in the words “victim of Islamist terrorism”, two months after its inauguration in homage to the professor murdered.
“The reference to the” Islamist “character of the terrorist act committed against Samuel Paty” was “bombed out”, said Tuesday the mayor of the 5th arrondissement, Florence Berthout, denouncing an “unacceptable degradation” .
“Unbearable”, “unacceptable”
This Monday, Nicolas Gavrilenko, treasurer of the Union of secular families (Ufal), had reported the plaque “vandalized”, an act which he said signs “the willful blindness of some”. “It is indeed the Islamist terrorism of which Samuel Paty was a victim,” he added. “Wanting to suppress the Islamist character of this heinous act is unbearable,” added Florence Berthout, who indicates that she has filed a complaint. The services of the City of Paris restored the plaque on Tuesday, she said. “The Samuel Paty plaque, victim of terrorism, has been degraded,” tweeted in the afternoon Emmanuel Grégoire, Anne Hidalgo’s first deputy, denouncing an “unacceptable” act and announcing that the City will also file a complaint.
The square was inaugurated on October 16, one year to the day after the attack which cost the professor his life, and in the presence in particular of his family, Anne Hidalgo and the Ministers of Education Jean-Michel Blanquer and of Higher Education Frédérique Vidal. The beheading of Samuel Paty, 47, on October 16, 2020 near his college in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine (Yvelines) by Abdoullakh Anzorov, a young radicalized who accused him of having shown caricatures of Muhammad to his students, had aroused considerable emotion.