(Radio France) The school where history and geography professor Samuel Paty worked when he was killed by a young radicalised Islamist in October 2020 has voted to rename their establishment after him. The decision comes less than a month before the fourth anniversary of his death.
The board of directors of Le Bois d’Aulne College in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine voted on Monday to change the name of the establishment to Samuel Paty College.
The conservative mayor of the town Laurent Brosse said it would send “a strong message,” as the school gears up to mark four years since Paty was assassinated.
The decision will now need to be formally validated by the municipal council as well as by the departmental council of Yvelines, northwest of Paris.
