A thousand people were present on Saturday in Moulins, the birthplace of Samuel Paty, the victim of the Conflans-Sainte-Honorine attack.
"The Moulinois are proud that one of their children has served the Republic and its values with such force," the mayor of the town, Pierre-André Périssol, told Europe 1.
Eight days after the Conflans-Sainte-Honorine attack, a tribute to Samuel Paty was organized on Saturday in Moulins, in Allier, the birthplace of the history and geography professor assassinated near his college.
More than a thousand people were present, according to the police, quoted by the daily
La Montagne
.
At the microphone of Europe 1, the mayor of the town Pierre-André Périssol insists on the pride of the inhabitants with respect to the commitment of Samuel Paty.
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More than a thousand people in Moulins (according to the police count) at the rally in tribute to Samuel Paty this Saturday, October 24, Place d'Allier #samuelpaty
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"He's a Moulinois. We lose a local child," he reacts, assuring that the Moulinois "are proud that one of their children has served the Republic and its values with such force, and that he has paid. this commitment of his life ".
A place will bear the name of Samuel Paty
"We wanted to give the floor to Moulinois so that they can write on a wall of expression what they had on the heart, in the head", continues the elected.
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And, concludes Pierre-André Périssol, "we are going to choose a place that has a lot of meaning, to which we will give the name of Samuel Paty, so that this example is given in a lasting way and that it can continue this dialogue with Moulinois through a place that has its name ".