Gérard Larcher wants the request to open a parliamentary commission of inquiry into the “dysfunctions” that led to the assassination of Samuel Paty, made by his family in a letter.
The President of the Senate Gérard Larcher (LR) wished on Wednesday that the request for the opening of a parliamentary commission of inquiry into the “dysfunctions” which led to the assassination of Samuel Paty, formulated by his family. In a letter published by the online information site Factual, Mickaëlle Paty, the sister of Samuel Paty, assassinated in October 2020 in an Islamist attack, wishes to be able to “hold to account those responsible for the mismanagement, the erroneous treatment of the threat hanging over my brother and the resulting lack of foresight”.
The final decision rests with the Senate Law Committee.
In this letter dated Monday, she asks “the opening of a parliamentary inquiry in order to establish the flaws in this tragedy and to try to plug the breaches”. For Gérard Larcher, Samuel Paty “contributed his share, more than his share since he gave his life for educational principles”. His family and “a number of his colleagues (…) deserve that we examine this request with attention, a desire for justice and at the same time, a form of respectful empathy”, he added on CNews. The final decision rests with the Senate Law Committee.
On October 16, 2020, the 47-year-old history and geography teacher was stabbed and then beheaded near his college in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine (Yvelines) by Abdoullakh Anzorov, a Russian refugee of Chechen origin. This radicalized Islamist was shot dead by the police. He reproached the professor for having shown in class, during a lesson on freedom of expression, caricatures of Muhammad.