Will the doubling of moral and civic education (EMC) course hours recently announced by Emmanuel Macron be enough to avoid tragedies? Certainly not, according to Samuel Paty’s sister. Traveling this Monday to Cannes, where she came to inaugurate the place bearing her brother’s name, Mickaëlle Paty estimated that it will “need a lot more”.
“It will not be enough to provide a counter-speech to those of our children who, outside, do not hear a republican speech at all. We will have to find other avenues to help them,” believes the woman who has “always shown great discretion.” “But we are reaching such a level of attacks against our teachers, it continued to increase again in December! », she is indignant, criticizing the measures taken and undone “without monitoring or evaluation”.
“A humanism that has become sick”
“Now, saving the school, saving all our teachers, for me it’s a bit like saving my brother,” she continues while demanding “unfailing support” for the threatened teachers. Samuel Paty, literature professor, was assassinated by a young jihadist in 2020.
In a very incisive speech, her sister again castigated “a humanism that has become sick” and the “magic shortcuts preventing any criticism (with regard to young people who place themselves behind the Republic) in the name of a debt received as an inheritance “.