Tens of thousands in French cities recalled on Sunday a high school history teacher who had been granted refugee status two days ago, killed and beheaded with a Moscow-born Chechen Islamist knife for showing Mohamed cartoons to his students. in your free speech class.

Thousands of people gathered in Paris at Place République (Republic), which has been the commemoration site for Islamist murders since 12 January 2015, after 12 terrorist attacks against the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, which published cartoons.

The crowd silently bowed their heads at the memory of Samuel Paty, 47, under the banners “I am a teacher” and “Freedom of speech, freedom of teaching.” Several held up the caricatures of Mohamed.

A similar silent commemoration took place in Toulouse, Lille, Lyon and Nice.

Among others, Prime Minister Jean Castex, Anne Hidalgo, the mayor of Paris, and various opposition politicians appeared in the Paris movement.

“They do not scare us. We are not afraid. They cannot divide us. We are France,” the prime minister wrote on Twitter, accompanied by photos of the commemoration.

Meanwhile, Emmanuel Macron called a Defense Council meeting in his office Sunday night, in which concrete steps are expected to be taken to more effectively filter Islamist calls and theories on the internet.

Head of State Emmanuel Macron will bid farewell to a national commemoration in Paris on Wednesday in a national commemoration of a brutal Islamist assassination.

At the institute where Samuel Paty taught, in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, thirty miles from Paris, parents and ordinary mourning citizens who have been studying since Saturday meet constantly and remember the teacher by lighting candles.

According to the Attorney General for Combating Terrorism, Jean-Francois Ricard, the case is based on the controversy that the professor broke out during his class on freedom of expression. Samuel Paty, before showing the students the cartoons of Mohamed, indicated that anyone who did not want to see the drawings could leave the room.

The father of one of the students, who was not otherwise attending class, was outraged by the discussion and posted the school’s address and teacher’s name on social media, after which Samuel Paty received threatening phone calls and filed a complaint with the school principal. He did not know his killer, 18-year-old Abdoullakh Anzorov.

According to preliminary investigation findings, the killer questioned local students on Friday afternoon about Samuel Paty. The 47-year-old history of geography instructor also posted a photo of his head on Twitter. In the attached message, he wrote to the “leader of the disbelievers”, French President Emmanuel Macron, that he had ended a “hellish career that despised the Prophet Muhammad.”

So far, 11 people have been arrested in connection with the case, according to their acquaintances, the perpetrator’s parents, “discreet and calm,” his grandfather, younger brother, two friends, the father who published the teacher’s data on the internet, and several people known to the authorities as Islamists. on the community side, the teacher was given a fatwa, that is, a death sentence.

In three weeks, this is the second terrorist attack in France that can be linked to the Mohamed cartoons. Last month, a 25-year-old Pakistani was arrested for wounding two people with the arm of a butcher near the former Parisian editorial office of the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo. Due to the republished cartoons of Mohamed, the man thought about setting fire to the editorial board of the joke.



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