France held a state funeral for slain teacher Samuel Patti at the ancient Sorbonne University on October 21. This is how the casket was carried into the Sorbonne campus by soldiers and watched by President Emmanuel Macron.
One of the world’s oldest universities, France’s Sorbonne University, on Wednesday held a state funeral for Samuel Patti, a high school teacher murdered by an Islamic mob. “Samuel Patti was killed because he was the embodiment of the Republic,” said French President Emmanuel Macron, paying tribute to Patti, the teacher who was brutally beheaded five days earlier.
President Macron declared passionately: “We will continue your work, Monsieur le Maître, even if others step back. We will defend your freedom to teach your students, even if others step back. We will never give up on the cartoons, the drawings at …….”
The funeral had begun minutes before Patty’s coffin entered the famous university campus in Paris, the Sorbonne, the symbolic seat of education where a teacher who educated the sons of men was murdered by Islamic terrorists for his education. On Friday, Patti was beheaded in the street by a young Chechen mob in exile in France, who was then chased by police and shot nine times, killing him instantly.
The 18-year-old thug, who had recorded audio before the killing, said he wanted to avenge the Prophet’s death. This is because Patti, a history teacher, showed a cartoon of Muhammad to her students during a class lecture on the history of freedom of speech. A few years ago, 11 people were killed in a mob airstrike on the French weekly Charlie Magazine for publishing one of these cartoons.
Patti was killed because Islamists want to dominate our future, but they know that when a society has the usual heroes like Patti, they can never cut off our future,” said Macron. “In France, the light will never die.”
The presence of many ministers, political leaders, more than a hundred students from the Paris Region, the speeches of several of Patty’s friends and relatives, and the famous letter from Camus to his teacher, Germain, gave the funeral an intimate and solemn feeling, a link between reality and history.
In reality, on Wednesday, seven people were brought before the judge on suspicion of “conspiracy to commit terrorist acts. Of the seven, two minors, a 14-year-old and a 15-year-old, were accused of being paid “between 300 and 350 euros” to identify Ms. Patti to the murderer, according to the Prosecutor of the Republic Riga. The prosecutor said that the prosecution of minors in a terrorist case is not unprecedented but is a cause for concern.
Other suspects brought before the judge include Ibrahim C., the parent who broadcasted a video on the Internet calling on the faithful to rise up and take revenge on the teacher, citing the teacher’s display of cartoons of Muhammad.
He joins another Islamic extremist, Abuldham C., in showing cartoons of Muhammad. Like Serfouvier, they named the social network, naming the identity of the target to be attacked. Counterterrorism investigations are now examining the correspondence between the father and the killers that was exchanged on WhatsApp.
Three friends of the killer, one suspected of driving him on the road in a car and another suspected of accompanying him to buy the weapon, will also be questioned by a judge.
On Wednesday, at the funeral, Macron handed over the teachers to the “barbarians” with the curt words “these are the cowards”.
For several days now, numerous teachers have described the difficulties they face in teaching, especially when it comes to the separation of church and state. Sadly, teachers in the Paris region have been accused inexplicably of speaking out about secularism and freedom of expression without even showing cartoons of Mohammed, said Leroy Leroy, a teacher in the Paris region.
On Wednesday, a 16-year-old high school student from the Toulouse region was taken to court after the teacher verbally abused the teenager in class over a question about whether Islamic headscarves should be worn in public.
Meanwhile, French authorities continue to launch an offensive against institutions and individuals suspected of spreading Islamic extremist ideology, and Macron has pledged to expand the government’s operations. The government has an Abderhammer in its sights. The radical pro-Palestinian association founded by Abderham Serfouvier was disbanded by order of French authorities on Wednesday.
The mosque in the Paris suburb of Bontemps, which has about 1,300 worshippers at a time, was also due to be closed for six months starting Wednesday. The mosque’s director is accused of spreading a Facebook video calling for reprisals against Mr. Patti. French authorities have pledged to open fire on enemies of the republic, and other associations campaigning against Islamist discrimination are also in the government’s sights.
The interior minister said the question is not whether there will be another murder, but when. Since Charlie Hebdo republished the Mohammed cartoons a few weeks ago, terrorists have called for opportunistic murders.
The Paris prosecutor has said that since the murder of Ms. Patti, fifteen investigations have been opened for “glorification of terrorist murder,” “death threats,” and incitement to murder.
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