As of Tuesday, the services of the City of Paris have restored it. The plaque in Square Samuel-Paty located in Paris was the subject of a “unacceptable degradation” at the level of the mention “victim of Islamist terrorism”, said Tuesday the mayor (DVD) of the 5th arrondissement Florence Berthout.
“The reference to the ‘Islamist’ character of the terrorist act committed against Samuel Paty” has been “bomb blasted”, she said, believing that “wanting to suppress the Islamist character of this heinous act is unbearable”, and adding to have lodged a complaint.
“To attack the memory of Samuel Paty is to attack us all, France and its values”, condemned Tuesday evening on Twitter the Minister of National Education Jean-Michel Blanquer, promising that “the perpetrators of this heinous act will be found and tried.” On Monday, Nicolas Gavrilenko, treasurer of the Union of Lay Families (Ufal), reported the plaque “vandalized”, an act that he says signs “the willful blindness of some”. And to add: “It is indeed the Islamist terrorism of which Samuel Paty was a victim”.
“The Samuel Paty plaque, victim of terrorism, has been degraded”, tweeted in the afternoon Emmanuel Grégoire, first deputy PS of the mayor PS Anne Hidalgo, denouncing an act “unacceptable” 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.