The College of Conflans-Saint-Honorine where he taught took his name

The College of Conflans-Saint-Honorine, in the Yvelines, where Samuel Paty taught, murdered by a Radical Islamist Chechen in October 2020, officially took his name on Friday March 14, in the presence in particular of one of his sisters and Elisabeth Borne, the Minister of National Education.

On this occasion, a plaque bearing the name of the history-geography teacher was unveiled inside the courtyard of the establishment, previously called the College du Bois d’Aulne,

Previously, in the vast hall with a geometric ceiling where the college students were wisely installed with their backpacks, the principal of the college, Marianne Viel, the Minister of National Education, Elisabeth Borne, and Gaëlle Paty spoke, among others, to praise the educational action of Samuel Paty and call to live the “Values ​​of the Republic”.

This name change “Is the symbol of a promise that neither forgetting, fear, nor violence will prevail”said Elisabeth Borne before an audience of college students, teachers, national education staff, elected officials and officials. A college student choir then interpreted the title He changed his lifeby Jean-Jacques Goldman.

“It is the name of life that continues”

“After Aulne’s wood, Samuel Paty, it is the name of life that continues despite death, beyond death”said a teacher, reading a text composed with her colleagues. “This is the name of transmission to youth, of hope towards future generations, it is now the name of our college and we will write it on its pediment, alongside the words freedom, equality and fraternity”she concluded, moved.

The college had proposed this name change in September 2024, a decision approved by the municipal council and then by the department.

Samuel Paty, 47 -year -old professor, was stabbed and then beheaded on October 16, 2020 by Abdoullakh Anzorov, a refugee of Chechen origin. The 18 -year -old, a radicalized Muslim, reproached him for having shown in class caricatures of Muhammad. Before being killed by the police, he had claimed his gesture by welcoming himself to have “Avenged the prophet”.

The mayor of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, Laurent Brosse, announced in October 2024, after the vote of the municipal council, having wished to wait until all the college students who knew Samuel Paty left the establishment before renamed the college, which has been the case since the end of June 2024.

“I think that today (…) We must manage to build concrete things for young people ” And “May the name Samuel become the symbol of something other than a drama”Gaëlle Paty told the press after the inauguration.