His sister is taking the administrative court of Nice to court to have the State’s responsibility recognised

“Mickaëlle Paty has seized the administrative court of Nice”writes her lawyer in a press release that franceinfo was able to consult on Wednesday July 10. The sister of Samuel Paty, assassinated by a terrorist in October 2020 in Yvelines, wants the State’s responsibility to be recognized in this assassination.

“The appeal is filed to have the State’s share of responsibility recognised for failing to support or protect Samuel Paty in order to prevent the death threats against him from being carried out.”writes Carine Chaix, Mickaëlle Paty’s lawyer. “Basically, this appeal is being filed both so that justice is done for Samuel Paty and his family and, on the other hand, so that the State can learn lessons from it in order to better support the teaching profession. and better prevent violence in schools”, adds the lawyer.

Mickaëlle Paty is filing this appeal because she has not received a response from Matignon, the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of National Education to the letter she sent them last March. “No response was received within the deadline [légal] of two months, thus giving rise to an implicit decision of rejection”, the lawyer said in her press release.

In the letter addressed to the executive, the sister of the murdered professor had denounced the numerous “errors committed by the administration“. First, the inaction of the college and the rectorate after a student’s lie. A 13-year-old schoolgirl had accused Samuel Paty of having taken the Muslims out of class to show the caricatures of Charlie Hebdo. “However, she was absent that day and the college found out about it later.” without making any public denialrecalls Carine Chaix. The rectorate then underestimated the seriousness of the death threats weighing on Samuel Paty. “Instead, they sent a secularism representative to remind him of the rules and give him a lesson.”recalls the lawyer.