PDT MACRON PAID A NATIONAL TRIBUTE TO SAMUEL PATY IN A SOLEMN AND SOBER CEREMONY

USPA NEWS - The President of the French Republic, Emmanuel Macron paid a national tribute to Samuel Paty, the professor of history, of the college of Aune du Bois, who was beheaded by a terrorist on October 16 in Conflans. This ceremony, very short (30 minutes, just before departure from curfew at 9:00 p.m.) which took place five days after the murder tragedy, began with three speeches, by the best friend of the deceased, Christophe Capuo, who reads the letter from Albert Camus thanking his teacher Louis Germain, when he received the nobel prize for literature. Without you, without this loving hand that you extended to the poor child that I am, none of this would be done “. A moving poem was proclaimed by a history teacher at Lycee Jules Ferry, Marie Curio, "we do not get used to killing, to this barbarism" and finally a young student Dahlia Leveke from the Lycee Masillon, Paris 4th, a text also in homage to the professor murdered, by a terrorist, for showing caricatures of the prophet Muhammad to his students, The ceremony which was organized by the family alongside, of the President of the Republic, began with the entrance of the coffin, carried by eight soldiers to the tunes of the U2 song,

The President of the French Republic, Emmanuel Macron paid a national tribute to Samuel Paty, the professor of history, of the college of Aune du Bois, who was beheaded by a terrorist on October 16 in Conflans. This ceremony, very short (30 minutes, just before departure from curfew at 9:00 p.m.) which took place five days after the murder tragedy, began with three speeches, by the best friend of the deceased, Christophe Capuo, who reads the letter from Albert Camus thanking his teacher Louis Germain, when he received the nobel prize for literature. Without you, without this loving hand that you extended to the poor child that I am, none of this would be done “. A moving poem was proclaimed by a history teacher at Lycee Jules Ferry, Marie Curio, "we do not get used to killing, to this barbarism" and finally a young student Dahlia Leveke from the Lycee Masillon, Paris 4th, a text also in homage to the professor murdered, by a terrorist, for showing caricatures of the prophet Muhammad to his students, The ceremony which was organized by the family alongside, of the President of the Republic, began with the entrance of the coffin, carried by eight soldiers to the tunes of the U2 song, “One Love“. Another soldier carried followed the funeral cortege with in his hands the portrait of Samuel Paty, while another soldier, him, lent the Academic Palms and the legion of honor that the President of the Republic gave to the became professor. posthumous. The President of the Republic, surrounded by the presidents of the National Assembly, Richard Ferrand, of the Senate, Gerard Larcher, the former President Francois Hollande, as well as other members of the government, such as the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jean Yves le Drian, Gerald Darmanin, Interior Minister and Eric Dupond Moretti, Minister of Justice. President Macron delivered a sober and solemn speech, but firm vis-à-vis the barbarism lobbed Samuel Paty, The head of state seemed very moved, and expressed by his intonation and the weight of his words, an anger and sadness, combined with a determination to prevent this kind of drama from happening again. President Macron recalled a sentence that Samuel Paty, whom he described as a “quiet hero“, because he struggled to defend freedom of expression, in the service of education and had pronounced “I want my life or by my death to be useful “. The Head of State, Emmanuel Macron, who has great admiration for teaching, having himself studied for many years, and whose wife is a professor of literature, stood in front of the statues of Louis Pasteur and Victor Hugo, in the main courtyard of the Sorbonne. This university which is one of the oldest in the world, and whose walls displayed holograms of the Marianne, and the three words Liberté Egalite Fraternité, in white, the national symbols of the French Republic. The last sentence of the President Macron was : In France the lights never go out "in allusion to the century of lights, the « century of intellectuals »including the great illustrious like Victor Hugo, throne in the courtyard with a magnificent imposing statute, These lightnings were concomitant with the score of the Marseillaise, French national anthem, while outside the Sorbonne, citizens sang and applauded, Immediately after delivering President Macron's speech, the eight soldiers took away Samuel Paty's coffin and the four hundred and fifty guests left in silence. We are publishing President Macron´s entire speech.

STATEMENT BY PRESIDENT MACRON IN THE COURT OF HONOR SORBONNE IN TRIBUTE TO SAMUEL PATY " Ladies and gentlemen, Tonight I will have no words to evoke the struggle against political, radical Islamism, which leads to terrorism. The words, I got them. Evil, I named it. The actions, we decided them, we toughened them, we will follow them to the end.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tonight, I will not talk about the procession of terrorists, their accomplices and all the cowards who committed and made this attack possible. I will not speak of those who gave his name to the barbarians, they do not deserve it. Names, they don't even have any more. Tonight, I will not speak more of the essential unity that all French people feel. It is precious and obliges all those in charge to speak correctly and to act with demand. No.---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tonight I want to talk about your son, I want to talk about your brother, your uncle, the one you loved, your father. Tonight I want to talk about your colleague, your teacher who fell because he had chosen to teach, murdered because he had decided to teach his students to become citizens. Learn homework to complete it. Learn the freedoms to exercise them. " President Macron introduced.

SAMUEL PATY LOVED BOOKS AND KNOWLEDGE SAID THE PDT MACRON----------------------------------------------- “Tonight, I want to talk to you about Samuel PATY.Samuel PATY loved books, knowledge, more than anything. His apartment was a library. Her best gifts, books for learning. He loved books to transmit, to his students as well as to his relatives, the passion for knowledge, the taste for freedom. After having studied History in Lyon and having considered becoming a researcher, he had taken the path traced by you, his parents, teacher and school principal in Moulins, by becoming a “researcher in pedagogy“ as he liked to define himself, by becoming a teacher. So there was no better place than the Sorbonne, our place of universal knowledge for over eight centuries, the place of humanism, for the nation to pay him this homage.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Samuel PATY was passionately fond of teaching and he did it so well in several colleges and high schools including that of Conflans-Saint-Honorine. We all have anchored in our hearts, in our memories, the memory of a teacher who changed the course of our lives. You know, this teacher who taught us to read, to count, to trust us. This teacher who not only taught us a knowledge but opened a way for us by a book, a look, by his consideration. » President Macron stated.

"SAMUEL PATY WAS ONE OF THESE TEACHERS THAT WE DON'T FORGET" EXPLAINED THE MACRON PDT Samuel PATY was one of those, of those teachers who will not be forgotten, of these enthusiasts able to spend nights learning the history of religions in order to better understand his students and their beliefs. Of these humble people who questioned themselves a thousand times, as for this course on freedom of expression and freedom of conscience that he had been preparing since July again last summer in Moulins by your side and the doubts he shared through requirement, out of delicacy.Samuel PATY basically embodied the professor JAURÈS dreamed of in this letter to teachers which has just been read: "firmness united with tenderness". He who shows the greatness of thought, teaches respect, shows what civilization is. The one who made it his business to "make republicans." So, the words of Ferdinand BUISSON come back as if to echo "To make a republican," he wrote, "you have to take the human being, however small and humble he may be [...] and give him the idea that he must think for himself, that he owes neither faith nor obedience to anyone, that it is up to him to seek the truth and not to receive it ready-made from a master, a director, a leader, whoever he is "" To make republicans ", that was Samuel PATY's fight.And while this task today may seem daunting, especially where violence, intimidation and sometimes resignation take precedence, it is more essential, more topical, than ever. » President Macron stated.

"HERE IN FRANCE WE LOVE OUR NATION" SAID PDT MACRON--------------------------------------------------------------- “Here in France, we love our Nation, its geography, its landscapes and its history, its culture and its metamorphoses, its spirit and its heart. And we want to teach it to all of our children. Here in France, we love the both earthly and universal project that the Republic carries, its order and its promises. Every day start over. So, yes, in every school, in every college, in every high school, we will give back to teachers the power to "make republicans", the place and the authority that are their due. We will train them, consider them as they should, we will support them, we will protect them as much as we need to. In school and out of school, the pressures, the abuse of ignorance and obedience that some would like to introduce have no place with us. »President Macron stated  

I WOULD LIKE MY LIFE AND MY DEATH TO USE SOMETHING SAMUEL PATY SAID ONE DAY----------------------- "I would like my life and my death to be used for something" he had said one day. As if by foreknowledge.- So why was Samuel killed? Why ? Friday night, I first believed in random madness, absurd arbitrariness: one more victim of gratuitous terrorism. After all, he was not the main target of the Islamists, he was only teaching. He was not the enemy of the religion they used, he had read the Koran, he respected his students, whatever their beliefs, he was interested in Muslim civilization. No, quite the contrary, Samuel PATY was killed precisely for all that. Because he embodied the Republic that is reborn every day in the classrooms, the freedom that is transmitted and perpetuated in school. » President Macron highlighted

SAMUEL PATY WAS KILLED BECAUSE ISLAMISTS WANT OUR FUTURE----------------------------------------------------- “Samuel PATY was killed because the Islamists want our future and they know that with quiet heroes like him, they will never have it. They separate the faithful from the disbelievers.Samuel PATY only knew citizens. They feed on ignorance. He believed in knowing it. They cultivate hatred for others. He constantly wanted to see its face, discover the riches of otherness.Samuel PATY was the victim of the disastrous conspiracy of stupidity, lies, amalgamation, hatred of the other, of the hatred of what deeply, existentially, we are.Samuel PATY on Friday became the face of the Republic, of our desire to break terrorists, to reduce Islamists, to live as a community of free citizens in our country, the face of our determination to understand, to learn, to continue to 'to teach, to be free, because we will continue, teacher.-------------------------------------------We will defend the freedom that you taught so well and we will hold secularism high. We will not give up caricatures, drawings, even if others back down. We will offer all the chances that the Republic owes to all its youth without any discrimination. » President Macron stated. WE WILL CONTINUE AND TEACH THE HISTORIES OF FRANCE AND ITS GLORIES, SAID PDT MACRON--------- “We will continue, Professor. Together with all the teachers and professors in France, we will teach History, its glories and its vicissitudes. We will introduce literature, music, all works of soul and spirit. We will love with all our strength the debate, the reasonable arguments, the kind persuasions. We will love science and its controversies. Like you, we will cultivate tolerance. Like you, we will seek to understand, relentlessly, and to understand even more that we would like to move away from us. We will learn humor, distance. We will recall that our freedoms hold only through the end of hatred and violence, through respect for others. We will continue, Professor. And throughout their lives, the hundreds of young men you have trained will exercise that critical thinking that you have taught them. Perhaps some of them will become teachers in their turn. So they will train young citizens. In turn, they will make the Republic love. They will make our nation, our values, our Europe understood in a chain of times that will not stop. We will continue, yes, this fight for freedom and for the reason of which you are now the face because we owe it to you, because we owe it to ourselves, because in France, professor, the Enlightenment never goes out. Long live the Republic. Long live France. "Concluded President Macron