a minute of silence will be organized in middle and high schools on October 14

A minute of silence will be organized in middle and high schools on Monday October 14 in memory of Samuel Paty and Dominique Bernard, teachers murdered during two jihadist attacks, declared the new Minister of National Education, Anne Genetet. This moment will come when the teachers “will wish it during the day”detailed the minister in an interview published Sunday October 6 in The Parisian. “They will also be able to organize, if they wish, a time for discussion and reflection with their students”she added.

Friday, during her first interview on RTL, the minister announced “a time of contemplation” for October 7, the anniversary of the unprecedented Hamas attack against Israel, before the ministry backpedaled by specifying that it was a commemoration of the death of the killed teachers Dominique Bernard and Samuel Paty , planned for the following Monday. For October 7, “teachers have their free decision to discuss the facts in class. They have educational resources at their disposal”said the minister.

Samuel Paty, a 47-year-old teacher, was stabbed then beheaded by Abdoullakh Anzorov, a Russian refugee of Chechen origin, on October 16, 2020. The 18-year-old young man, a radicalized Muslim, accused him of having shown caricatures in class of Mohammed. The emotion caused by this attack was rekindled in France by the assassination, on October 23, 2023, of another professor, Dominique Bernard, killed in Arras, in the north of the country, by a young Islamist.