While a national tribute to Samuel Paty will be paid this Wednesday at the end of the afternoon in the presence of Emmanuel Macron in the courtyard of the Sorbonne in Paris, an informal gathering, with all the sanitary conditions imposed, will be held the same day, from 11:30 am, on the forecourt of Thionville town hall. An initiative of the town hall.
“Recent events have shown that it is important to come together to show our attachment to the Republic and to fight barbarism whatever its origin, name or foundations”, commented the mayor, Pierre Cuny. “The City of Thionville offers its condolences to the family of Samuel Paty, cowardly assassinated because of obscurantism from another time,” he added.
The flags of the city will be at half mast as of this Wednesday, October 21, for three days.
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