On the front page: the re-entry into the viewfinder and opposite, the resistance

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Demonstration, October 18, 2020 Place de la République in Paris, in tribute to Samuel Paty, assassinated by an Islamist terrorist in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine.

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By: Andréane Meslard

11 min

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It is Saturday and yet several French newspapers tell us about school and back to school.

A " 

challenge

 " as described by

Le Parisien

in its editorial.

It must be said that the school remains in shock, a week after the assassination of Samuel Paty.

And before this return,

Le Parisien

reminds us: " 

there are some prerequisites to prevent all these teachers from going to the pipe breaker

 ".

“ 

The teachers are worried,

 ” we can read.

The assassination of Samuel Paty is in everyone's mind,

 " reveals a confidential note from the Central Territorial Intelligence Service, consulted by

Le Parisien

and which is intended to be the relay of a milieu " 

which remains combative and which is united, but which is not serene

 ”.

Is denounced, among other things, the lack of support.

Le Parisien

quotes in particular the National Union of Schools (SNE) which regrets " 

that teachers are systematically suspected as soon as a parent comes to complain (...) since it is the school which must adapt to the pupils

 " .

Many teachers fear, now more than ever, to find themselves " 

on the front line

 ".

Rethinking school and teaching

In any case, this is what the newspaper

La Croix

du jour

wants

, for which the teaching of religion must be reshaped.

The researcher at the Practical School of Higher Studies (EPHE), interviewed by the daily, explains that to talk about religion in a secular way, it must be treated " 

as a symbolic system of understanding the world, which is part of the 'history

 '.

What about the cartoons?

This specialist tells us “

that the main

thing 

is to show, through these caricatures, that we debate by ideas, by drawing but not by strokes (...).

The pupil has the right to say that it does not make him laugh but it is also necessary to learn to construct a critical glance with these images

 ”.

In any case, sure that the stakes are high and the challenge sizeable for the school.

Marked, the institution is, that's for sure, and is not about to forget this tragedy of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine.

The Saint-Antoine du Cap d'Ail school will even remember it every day.

The establishment will soon be renamed École Samuel-Paty.

Nice-Matin

tells us how this idea was adopted Friday evening within the city council, in particular in the face of criticism from around twenty parents of pupils.

A small demonstration, for a big fear

 " writes

Nice-Matin,

that of seeing the school of their very young children become the target of possible terrorists

 ".

But for the mayor Les Républicains of the town of southern France, this is " 

a decision as symbolic as necessary

 ."

Liberation

for its part makes its front page on the left and on Islam: " 

thirty years of divisions

 " writes the newspaper

The dedicated article installs on a place of the Parisian Republic, at the time of the homage to Samuel Paty last Sunday, the members of this divided left.

“ 

The tension is palpable between each of the families.

They do not speak to each other, observe each other from afar,

 ”writes

Libé.

The newspaper quotes this politician who has been prowling on the left since the last century, who describes: “ 

On the left, there is on one side a part which sees everything through the social prism, it is also turned towards the fight against the Islamophobia or gender identity;

on the other, a left which sees everything through the prism of identity and which brandishes secularism as a weapon, forgetting that the law allows one to believe or not to believe

 ”.

Liberation

continues with the school

We come back to it: " 

the school: a common heritage of the left which has been struck to the heart

 " writes the daily in its editorial, adding " 

the school, in its emancipatory function, is the history of the left, its major contribution, with the law of separation of Church and State of 1905, to the republican ideal

 ”.

The question, says

Liberation,

is " 

if the left, in the coming months, will be shattered on what remains of common cement.

She takes the path.

Or if, on the contrary, the immense violence of the Conflans attack, because it affects the school, can give rise to a start

 ”.

School, understand the values ​​that allow you to meet again, while the storm is blowing.

The left which takes place in many columns this morning

And not just any. 

Le Figaro

speaks about it this morning: " 

The media return of the Dutch

 ".

François Hollande himself is in

Libé

this Saturday morning, Manuel Valls in

Le Figaro.

They are the ones that the media are calling for to evoke Islamist terrorism

 " writes

Le Figaro.

They who faced the attacks of 2015, recalls the daily.

No one else on the left had to.

Basically, only they know what they are talking about,

 " said a relative of the former president in the pages of the newspaper.

And finally, that everyone is reassured, it is of course also question of the coronavirus this Saturday in the press

And each title treats it in its own way.

Libé

takes us to Maine-et-Loire, to a bistro where the boss tells us why his regulars will not fully respect the curfew which comes into force this evening.

“ 

They will drag things out,

 ” the newspaper said.

Ouest-France,

for its part, is wondering this morning: " 

Why is the Atlantic coast doing better?" 

"An epidemiologist from Rennes is trying to provide some avenues for reflection: initially the virus comes rather from the East, milder weather, less social contact or even faster test results.

In conclusion, the mystery remains unsolved.

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