The conference of presidents of the Senate on Wednesday, June 14, acted the creation of a commission of inquiry in response to the request of the family of Samuel Paty who wanted to be able to establish “the flaws” which allowed the assassination of the teacher. The Senate must still decide, Thursday morning in the hemicycle, on the creation of this commission of inquiry.
Formally, it was the Culture and Education Commission and the Law Commission which asked to be granted the prerogatives attributed to the commissions of inquiry, for a period of six months. They intend to carry out “a joint monitoring mission to examine the issue of reporting and dealing with pressure, threats and attacks against teachers”.
In a letter published by the online news site Factual, Mickaëlle Paty, the sister of Samuel Paty, assassinated in October 2020 in an Islamist attack, wished last month to be able to “hold to account those responsible for mismanagement, mishandling of the threat to [his] brother and consequent lack of foresight”.
In this letter, Mickaëlle Paty requested “the opening of a parliamentary inquiry in order to establish the flaws in this tragedy and to try to plug the breaches”. The President of the Senate, Gérard Larcher (LR), then wished on Wednesday that this request be examined with “attention” and “respectful empathy”.
On October 16, 2020, the 47-year-old history and geography teacher was stabbed and then beheaded near his college in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine (Yvelines) by Abdoullakh Anzorov, a Russian refugee of Chechen origin.
This radicalized Islamist was shot dead by the police. He reproached the professor for having shown in class, during a lesson on freedom of expression, caricatures of Muhammad.