Assassination of Samuel Paty: investigation opened after a complaint against the administration
A sign paying tribute to Professor Samuel Paty.
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In France, an investigation for “failure to provide assistance” has been open since April after a complaint by the family of Samuel Paty against the State.
The ten members of his family believe that the Ministries of the Interior and National Education did not protect him when they were aware of the threats against the teacher.
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A year and a half after the assassination of the history and geography professor, beheaded by a young radicalized next to his college in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine on October 16, 2020, ten members of his family, with the exception of his ex -companion,
accuse the French administration of having failed.
At the center of the questions: the intelligence services and the Academy of Yvelines.
They couldn't have anticipated the threat hovering over the history-geography professor.
80 pages long, Me Le Roy's complaint targets the offenses of "failure to prevent a crime and non-assistance to a person in danger" and targeted "several agents of the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of National Education “who had to know, directly or indirectly, of the situation of
Samuel Paty.
Threat assessment
At the beginning of October, the teacher gives a lesson on secularism.
He shows caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad to his students.
Then, the father of a college student and an Islamist activist are indignant on social networks.
But the local Muslim associations do not follow the movement.
This is what reassures the intelligence services.
On the side of National Education, there is no more alarm.
While at the same time, two complaints were filed by Samuel Paty and the principal of the establishment after death threats.
A few days later, he is murdered next to his college.
He had no police protection.
The investigation must therefore determine whether the agents of the State services could have been aware of a targeted and imminent threat aimed at the professor.
For their part, the former companion and the son of Samuel Paty do not join in this complaint.
For them, the Salafist ideology is solely responsible for the death of Samuel Paty.
The anti-terrorist investigation into the assassination of the history and geography professor should be completed by the end of the year.
Fifteen people are indicted in this case, including six college students.
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