You know, that primary school teacher who taught us to read, add up and have confidence in ourselves. And they will educate young citizens. The government was reported to be preparing to dissolve a further fifty organizations connected with radical Islam. He who gave himself the task of “making republicans”. Macron after all had tackled the debate about Islamist extremism before Paty’s death in his speech on 2 October on secularism – an hour-long address in which he attempted to be nuanced on how to integrate Islam and French secularism. “We don’t believe in political Islam that is not compatible with stability and peace in the world.”. Discours du Président Emmanuel Macron le 21 octobre 2020 à la Sorbonne en hommage à Samuel Paty Mesdames, Messieurs, Ce soir je n'aurai pas de mots pour évoquer la lutte contre l'islamisme politique, radical, qui mène jusqu'au terrorisme. His finest presents were books to learn from. En trois ans, Emmanuel Macron est passé de la négation relative de l’existence d’une culture française à la défense de notre civilisation, prononçant à l’occasion de l’hommage national à Samuel Paty l’un de ses plus beaux et émouvants discours, que nous reproduisons intégralement ci-dessous. And we want to teach it to all our children. He who shows the greatness of thought teaches respect and shows what civilization is. (1) schools catering for pupils aged between 11 and 15 years (approx.) Consider the aftermath of the Oct. 15 beheading of Samuel Paty near Paris. Like you, we will cultivate tolerance. They in turn will nurture love for the Republic. On Friday, Samuel Paty became the face of the Republic, of our determination to disrupt terrorists, to curtail Islamists, to live as a community of free citizens in our country; he became the face of our determination to understand, to learn, to continue to teach, to be free, because we will continue to do so, sir. The call in some accounts took the form of a lecture, and in others an appeal to cooperate more closely in a common cause. Emmanuel Macron, président de la République française. France’s schoolteachers primary and secondary school teachers will teach history – both its glories and its vicissitudes. The teacher who not only taught us a piece of knowledge but opened up a path for us through a book, through their attentiveness. In the passage has proved most provocative in Turkey, he said: “Islam is a religion that is experiencing a crisis across the world,” in reference to Islamic State jihadism and also Wahhabism, the Saudi extremist ideology, and Salafism. We all have firmly lodged in our hearts, our memories, a teacher who changed the course of our lives. The French calculation is that Erdoğan will succumb to pressure. We will provide all the opportunities that the Republic owes all its young people, without any discrimination. Being tough on Islamist separatism, and paying a price globally, hardly wounds him with waverers on the right. It would be easy to think that Macron, facing record Covid infections, might look at his in-tray and back off. This evening I want to talk to you about Samuel Paty. We will remember that our freedoms will endure only if we end hatred and violence, only if we respect others. Like you, we will relentlessly seek to understand, and to gain an even better understanding of the things they’d like to take away from us. He believed in knowledge. We will help our students discover literature, music, all the works of the mind and soul. We will learn humour, distance. This evening I won’t speak about the fight against political, radical Islamism, which leads to terrorism. Islamic separatism, which Macron describes as a deviation of Islam, is “a conscious, theorised, politico-religious project, which is materialised by repeated discrepancies with the values of the republic, which often results in the creation of a counter-society and whose manifestations are the dropping out of school of children, the development of sports, cultural and communal practices which are the pretext for the teaching of principles which do not conform to the laws of the republic”. No, on the contrary, that’s precisely why Samuel Paty was killed. A complex speech such as this does not take long to be distorted and become a source of grievance abroad, especially in Turkey, since as many as half of the imams in France are Turkish. A protest in Istanbul on Sunday, the day after the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, described Macron as mentally ill. “I’d like my life and death to be of some use,” he once said. Because he embodied the Republic which comes alive every day in classrooms, the freedom that is conveyed and perpetuated in schools. Peu avant 17h, des adolescents désignent Samuel Paty, qui sort du collège et Anzorov, se lance à … With all our strength, we will enjoy debate, reasonable arguments, friendly persuasion. I’ve said what I had to say. We will continue, sir. There were also balancing passages about the state as guarantor of the freedom of religion, economic disenfranchisement, and the French colonial legacy. This evening I won’t say any more about the vital unity all French people feel, which is invaluable and requires all leaders to express themselves appropriately and act rigorously. Discours d’Emmanuel Macron en hommage au « combat pour la liberté » de Samuel Paty "Nous continuerons, professeur. Domestically, he faces the first round of the French presidential elections in April 2022, and his challenge will come from the security-minded right, either the centre-right Les Républicains or the far-right Marine Le Pen, with whom he is neck and neck in the polls. We will love science and its controversies. But Erdoğan will draw his own strength from the condemnations of Macron across the Arab world. France urges end to boycott of French goods as Macron defends Muhammad cartoons. We will not disavow the cartoons, the drawings, even if others recoil. Macron after all had tackled the debate about Islamist extremism before Paty’s death in his speech on 2 October on secularism – an hour-long address in … He warns that the Nato alliance may become brain dead since Turkey, a fellow member, is ambivalent about the defence of western values. This evening I want to talk about your son, I want to talk about your brother, your uncle, the man you loved, your father. But he appears to have done the opposite, ringing the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, with the Chechen origins of Paty’s alleged assailant in mind, to urge him to redouble Russia’s efforts to cooperate on terrorism. They no longer even have names. Samuel PATY fut la victime de la conspiration funeste de la bêtise, du mensonge, de l’amalgame, de la haine de l’autre, de la haine de ce que profondément, existentiellement, nous sommes. Many Europeans worry about Macron’s somewhat Gaullist, or France-first, approach. No. I won’t talk about those who have made us associate his name with barbarians; they don’t deserve it. Les deux mineurs décrivent alors Samuel Paty au terroriste. In early October, a matter of days before Paty's murder, French President Emmanuel Macron said: "There is in this radical Islamism, a methodical organization to contravene the laws of … Samuel Paty was one of them, one of those teachers you don’t forget, one of those passionate people able to spend nights learning the history of religions so he could better understand his students and their beliefs. This evening I won’t talk about the string of terrorists, their accomplices and all the cowards who committed this attack and made it possible. On Friday evening, at first I believed it to be a random act of madness, a senseless arbitrary act: another victim of gratuitous terrorism. His apartment was a library. (2) schools catering for pupils aged between 15 and 18 years (approx.) One of those humble people who questioned themselves a thousand times, as he did with the freedom of expression and freedom of conscience course he had been preparing in Moulins since July, at your side, and the doubts he shared because of his high standards and thoughtfulness. Here in France, we love the project, both earthly and universal, promoted by the Republic, its order and its promises. On 6 October, when Samuel Paty, a popular history and geography teacher at a school in a quiet Paris suburb, presented a copy of the cartoons of the prophet Muhammad that provoked the attack on Charlie Hebdo magazine five years ago, he self-evidently had no idea of the tragic consequence for his own life, French society or France’s relations with the Islamic world. Perhaps if Macron had nurtured ties with France’s eastern European Nato allies and EU members, he would have gained more early support for his stance against Turkey and more trust for his Russia diplomacy.”. It contained a number of proposals to regulate imams and mosques. President has become a hate figure in Islamic world over response to death of Samuel Paty, Last modified on Mon 26 Oct 2020 20.50 GMT. Since then Macron has been described as mentally ill by the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan; his ambassador to Pakistan has been summoned to condemn incitement of Islamophobia; and from Sana’a to Riyadh he has become a one-man axis of evil. So why was Samuel killed? Nous défendrons la liberté … By raising the stakes, and keeping them high, Macron is also trying to make others recognise they cannot stay neutral. We’ll train them, we’ll esteem them as we should, we’ll support them, we’ll protect them as much as necessary. The murderer, a Chechen refugee, ... Macron responded to Paty’s murder by focusing on the murderer’s motivation and promising not to sacrifice free expression out of fear. He always wanted to give them a human face, discover the richness of otherness. As if it were a premonition. French products are the subject of a boycott. His calculation will be that so long as he makes the final round, the left as before has nowhere else to go. He wasn’t an enemy of the religion they exploit: he had read the Koran, he respected his students whatever their beliefs and was interested in Muslim civilization. In the Mediterranean, he equates Greek interests with those of Europe, leaving Germany to mediate. Weeks after his death in Nice, three people were killed in an Islamist terrorist attack inside a catholic church. (3) laïcité goes beyond the concept of secularism, embracing the strict neutrality of the State. image captionMr Macron paid tribute to the teacher at a memorial in Paris French President Emmanuel Macron has paid tribute to "quiet hero" Samuel Paty… Long live the Republic, long live France. Le Train Bleu restaurant in Doha, “a quintessential Parisian dining experience” in Qatar, is for instance hurriedly re-sourcing its products. EMMANUEL Macron has vowed that "Islamists will never take our future" after he stood beside the coffin of a teacher slain by a jihadi. And throughout their lives, the hundreds of young people you educated will practise the critical thinking they learned from you. More than anything else, Samuel Paty loved books, knowledge. So Ferdinand Buisson’s words echo back: “To make a republican,” he wrote, “it is necessary to give every human being, no matter how young or meek, the idea that he must think on his own, that he must be faithful or obedient to no one, that it is up to him to seek truth and not receive it ready-made from a teacher, guide or leader of any sort.” “Making republicans” was what Samuel Paty fought for. Lors de la cérémonie consacrée à Samuel Paty, dans la cour de la Sorbonne, mercredi 21 octobre, le président de la République, Emmanuel Macron, a prononcé un discours … He loved relaying to his students and loved ones a passion for knowledge and the taste of freedom through books. Samuel PATY fut la victime de la conspiration funeste de la bêtise, du mensonge, de l'amalgame, de la haine de l'autre, de la haine de ce que profondément, existentiellement, nous sommes. Samuel Paty was passionate about teaching and did it so well in several collèges (1) and lycées (2), right up to the collège in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine. Très ému, le président de République, après avoir remis la Légion d'honneur à titre posthume à Samuel Paty, dans un cercle intime, a dénoncé la "conspiration funeste" et "la haine de l'autre", … What was intended as a classroom exploration of the freedom of thought has turned into a mini-clash of civilisations. He was in turn shot dead by police. Macron has long sought a reset with Moscow by joining forces against terrorism. Samuel Paty was the victim of a fatal conspiracy of folly, lies, conflation, hatred of the other, hatred of what we are deep down, existentially. A photograph of Paty’s severed head, taken on a mobile phone by his killer Abdullakh Anzorov, was posted on the website of the Pakistani Islamist group Tehreek-e-Labbaik. They cultivate hatred of the other. But to diminish his conflict with extremism into a narrow calculation of personal political advantage is to misunderstand his intellectual journey on secularism in office, and the way in which the issue is central to his foreign policy outlook including his attitude to Turkey, Russia, Nato and the Middle East. This evening I want to talk about your colleague, your teacher who died because he chose to teach, murdered because he decided to teach his students how to become citizens; to teach duties so they could be fulfilled; to teach freedoms so they could be exercised. At a national memorial at the Sorbonne University in central Paris, Macron praised history teacher Samuel Paty as the “face of the Republic” who “believed in knowledge.” Paty, 47, was murdered on Friday by an 18-year-old of Chechen origin who had become radicalized. All rights reserved - Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs - 2020, National tribute to the memory of Samuel Paty – Speech by Emmanuel Macron, President of the Republic, at the Sorbonne (21 Oct. 20), Directory and Addresses of the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs, Discover the Ministry (history, virtual tour, etc.