Decapitated professor: call for a rally this Sunday in Paris, Place de la République
"I am a teacher", we can read on the homage paid in front of the college of Bois d'Aulne, among flowers and candles.
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France is in shock after the assassination on Friday of a history professor at the end of a college in the Paris region.
The Élysée indicated that a national tribute would be paid to the teacher on Wednesday.
A rally is also planned this Sunday in Paris.
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The Paris police headquarters authorized a rally on Sunday at 3:00 p.m. Place de la République in Paris to pay tribute to the decapitated professor of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine.
The call was initiated by SOS Racisme, FSU, Sgen-CFDT, Unsa-Education, SNALC, FCPE, FIDL (high school union) FAGE, UEJF and "Dessinez Create Liberty" after the assassination Friday of this professor who had shown caricatures of Muhammad to his students.
There will be no ban on this gathering, the police headquarters told AFP.
“
I understand this initiative, I support it.
If it were to take place, I would obviously go to this event in accordance with the sanitary conditions that are ours today,
”Minister of Education Jean-Michel Blanquer told the press in the morning.
“
We must show our support for the Republic,
” he added.
“
Beyond this gathering, we call on our local representations to organize initiatives in the coming days
,” wrote the associations at the origin of this call.
In order to "
say that we think of Samuel Paty (the murdered professor) as well as of his bereaved relatives
", "to
say that teachers must be supported in the exercise of their profession
", to say "
that we are attached to freedom expression and that we reject extremist and obscurantist logics
”, they underlined in particular.
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All the municipalities called for a tribute
The Association of Mayors of France called on all municipalities on Saturday to pay tribute to Samuel Paty.
The AMF "
suggests that municipalities display the hashtag #jesuis teacher on their buildings, respect a minute's silence at the next municipal council meeting and choose a day for the town hall flag to be half-masted
", according to a statement.
Several municipalities have already put their flags at half mast on Saturday.
Policies in rallies all over France
Politicians of all stripes have planned to participate in the rallies planned in several dozen cities in France on Sunday.
The boss of La République en Marche, Stanislas Guerini, said he would participate in the rally in the capital as well as several deputies of the majority.
The leader of La France insoumise, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the boss of the PS, Olivier Faure, and that of Europe-Ecology-The Greens, Julien Bayou, will also be present.
The number one of the PCF, Fabien Roussel, indicated that he would be "
either in Paris or in Lille
".
Their respective political parties also called to join the rallies.
Former Prime Minister Manuel Valls has also confirmed that he will visit Place de la République.
François Bayrou, president of the MoDem and High Commissioner for Planning, indicated that he would participate in a rally in Pau, a city of which he is mayor.
LR president Christian Jacob will be alongside teachers in Provins (Seine-et-Marne), his municipality.
Place de la République, a traditional venue for demonstrations in Paris, was the epicenter of the rally on January 11, 2015 after the
Charlie Hebdo
and Hyper Hide
attacks
, which had approximately 1.5 million participants.
As of Saturday, several hundred people gathered in Nice or Rennes to denounce an "
act of barbarism
" and defend "
the values of democracy
".
While a thousand people paid tribute to the teacher in front of his school in front of the Bois d'Aulne college in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine.
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To read also: Decapitated professor in the Paris region: what we know about the terrorist attack
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