The institution acted responsively but was unable to adequately follow what was happening on social networks.
These are the conclusions of the report of the General Inspectorate of Education released this Thursday evening.
He therefore recommends better monitoring on the Internet and increasing the exchange of information.
A report from the General Inspectorate of Education looking into the events that occurred in Samuel Paty's college before his assassination confirmed Thursday the responsiveness of the institution's support but underlines a lack of monitoring of social networks.
At the beginning of October, this 47-year-old history and geography teacher showed his students caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad during a course on secularism, which had created controversy among some parents.
He had also suffered threats on social networks.
Ten days later, he was assassinated by a radicalized Chechen on the eve of the holidays.
"The arrangements were made with responsiveness"
"The reconstruction of the course of events tends to show that, both at the level of the establishment, as well as at the departmental and academic levels, measures were taken with reactivity to manage the disturbance initially caused by the course on the freedom of expression of Samuel Paty, "wrote the General Inspectorate of Education in a report made public Thursday evening.
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The principal of the college "accompanied the professor the next day Tuesday when she received a first reaction from a mother of a pupil" and alerted the academy "on Thursday 8 even before having met the father of the pupil and the individual accompanying him ".
"The institution's support for the professor seems to have been total" according to Blanquer
Regarding the interview that Samuel Paty had with the secular academic referent, the principal and the education advisor, the inspectorate explains that at first, the teacher had "difficulty in perceiving that by proposing to the pupils to go out he made a mistake, he thinks that in this his behavior conforms to the principles of secularism ".
Samuel Paty then "recognized an awkwardness, insofar as what was thought of as a means of protecting the students finally crumpled", continues the inspection, specifying that "during the interview, it is repeated that did not explicitly ask Muslim students to come out, but felt they were implicitly designated ".
There was a good reactivity and professional reflexes on the part of Samuel Paty, the principal of the college and the various actors including the 'Valeurs de la République' teams of the Academy of Versailles.
The institution's support for the teacher seems to have been total, "said Minister of Education Jean-Michel Blanquer in an interview with Le Figaro.
Increase monitoring on social networks
The 22-page report also points to weaknesses, such as the lack of social media monitoring.
After Samuel Paty's lessons, the controversy, notably via the video of the father of a student, was particularly relayed on social networks.
But the report notes that the alert was given "by parents of students or by a teacher".
Pointing therefore to a deficit of the institution, the report considers that "it appears necessary to set up or increase the power of social network monitoring cells".
The report also reviews the exchange of information and recommends "to increase the fluidity and reciprocity of the exchange of information between the different levels of the services of the Ministry of National Education and those of the Ministry of the Interior in such a way, in particular, to allow an assessment of the degree of seriousness of an event ".