A few days from the two years of the death of Samuel Paty, on October 16, 2020, a professor was threatened with death last Monday in Évry-Courcouronnes (Essonne), learned franceinfo this Thursday from a judicial source. The threats arrived by mail at the Lycée Georges Brassens.
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“Your dirty jewish teacher needs to stop being smart“, begins the courier.”We are going to make him a Samuel Paty to him and his father the old Zionist rabbi. We don’t want Jews in high schools. Stay in your synagogues. We’ll take care of him when he leaves high school.”can we read.
These mail threats are “quite a rare way“, according to a judicial source. The police officers of the Evry police station are therefore trying to find out whether it is a very bad joke or a more serious threat. The Evry prosecution has opened an investigation for “aggravated death threat, due to of the religious affiliation of the victim”.
SOS Racisme wishes to show its support for the two people targeted by these death threats and has entrusted its lawyers with the task of bringing the association as a civil party in this case, which calls for a firm response from the courts, indicates the association in a press release.
“Anti-Semitism” is the main motivation, believes Dominique Sopo the president of SOS Racisme. “The nature of the letter shows a particularly virulent anti-Semitism towards the two victims, brought back to their Jewish faith and threatened on this basis”. This threat “also denotes a desire to instill terror by referring to the particularly heinous murderer who struck Samuel Paty”.
“A contempt for the memory of Samuel Paty, a teacher who calls for respect from every citizen.”
Dominique Sopofranceinfo
On October 16, 2020, Samuel Paty, a 47-year-old history and geography professor, was beheaded near his college in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, west of Paris, by an 18-year-old Russian refugee of Chechen origin who reproached him for having shown caricatures of Muhammad to his pupils. Among the incidents recorded since, a teacher at a high school in Thann “suffered death threats from the uncle of one of his students” at the beginning of October after having “discussed in class freedom of expression, cartoons of Muhammad and Charlie Hebdo”, according to France Bleu Alsace. The rectorate of Strasbourg has “firmly” condemned Wednesday these “intimidation and threats“.