“We’re going to make him a Samuel Paty”: a history and geography professor threatened with death in Essonne – Le Figaro

An anonymous letter was dropped off at the Georges-Brassens high school in Évry-Courcouronnes on Monday, October 10. The teacher is also the subject of anti-Semitic remarks in this letter. An investigation is underway. A history and geography teacher at the Georges-Brassens high school in Évry-Courcouronnes in Essonne was targeted by death threats and anti-Semitic insults in an anonymous letter filed Monday, October 10 in the establishment, learned Le Figaro from the Évry prosecution, confirming information from CNews . An investigation has been opened for “death threats against a person in charge of a public service mission”, with the aggravating circumstance of belonging to a religion, the prosecution tells us. “The dirty Jew must stop being clever”, “We are going to make him a Samuel Paty to him and his father the old Zionist rabbi” or even “We do not want the Jews in high schools, stay in your synagogues”, can we read in this letter revealed by CNews. Read alsoThe school distraught over Islamic clothingSEE ALSO – A teacher threatened with death for having mentioned the cartoons of MuhammadThe teacher, who filed a complaint, was placed under police surveillance. “It’s very violent, it affects me personally in my private identity, it affects me as a teacher because there is the name of the colleague (…) it puts in a certain anguish (…) I am determined to come back to teach but there will be a before and an after”, he confided to our colleagues. These threats come as teachers and students prepare to honor the memory of Samuel Paty, in a context of renewed attacks on secularism in schools. On October 16, 2020, Samuel Paty, a 47-year-old history and geography professor, was beheaded near his college in Bois-d’Aulne, in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine in the Yvelines. His murderer, Abdoulakh Anzorov – an 18-year-old Russian refugee of Chechen origin – reproached him for having shown caricatures of Muhammad to his students. SEE ALSO – What can teachers do in the face of attacks on secularism in school ?