Samuel Paty's sister says the education system still sweeps teacher threats under the rug

During a radio interview, Mickaëlle Paty, sibling of the teacher killed in 2020, denounced what she calls the "no-wave" approach of the French Ministry of Education. She explained that when staff face danger or threats, the response is to conceal the issue instead of confronting it, and that sanctions remain weak. Referring to her brother's killing after a controversy over caricatures of Muhammad, Paty argued that the administration's reaction was insufficient and focused on crisis control rather than prevention.

She stressed that this pattern repeats for any aggression against teachers and expressed pessimism about change. Paty concluded that if one teacher can be murdered, others may follow unless the system reforms.