Roberta METSOLA, EP President, opens the European Parliament's plenary session in Strasbourg with a statement on 2 years after the assassination of Samuel Paty, French professor. This transcription is a result of an automatic process. Please check against delivery.

statement

Strasbourg

plenary session

METSOLA, Roberta (EPP, MT, EP President)

Resumption of session and order of business: opening remark by Roberta METSOLA, EP President on 2 years after the assassination of Samuel Paty, French professor

SOUNDBITE (English), Roberta METSOLA, EP President, The 16th of October, also marks the tragic death of Samuel Paty, French citizen, a European. He was a teacher who was working to inform the coming generation. He was the personified of our values, European freedom.

SOUNDBITE (English), Roberta METSOLA, EP President, He was harassed on Internet and then assassinated by people who wanted to work against his way of life. So we would like to commemorate his death and would like to pursue the line of rejecting hate.