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Blanquer said that Paty would win France’s highest award, the “Legion of Honor,” as quoted by Reuters, on Tuesday (10/20/2020).
Légion d’honneur or Order national de la Legion d’honneur (National Order of the Legion of Honor) is a sign of the highest honor of France that has the motto Honneur et Patrie (“Honor and Fatherland”). This mark of honor is awarded to those, civilian or military, who are considered to have made significant contributions to the country.
Samuel Paty was killed Friday in broad daylight outside his school in a middle-class suburb of Paris. The Conflans-Sainte-Honorine city teacher was brutally murdered by Abdulak Abuezidovich A (18) when he was returning home last week. The author was a man of Chechen ethnicity, Russian.(Also read: Chechen leaders claim that the perpetrators of the beheading of teachers in France are not citizens)
The teenager tried to retaliate against his victim’s use of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in a class on freedom of expression. Muslims consider the representation of the prophet Muhammad to be an insult.
The murder shocked France and alerted the public to the attacks five years ago on the offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. A massive demonstration attended by thousands of people took place in the French capital, Paris, on Sunday in memory of a teacher who was beheaded in a terrorist attack. The teacher named Samuel Paty was beheaded by a man after showing a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad during a free speech lesson in his class.(Read also: Master beheaded because the cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad caused a large demonstration in France)
Public figures called the killings an attack on the Republic and French values. Meanwhile, an imam from a mosque on the outskirts of Paris, France, apologized while paying his respects in front of Paty’s campus.
On the other hand, the cartoon that Paty showed in class also sparked a wave of anger among some parents of Muslim students, with one of them even launching an online campaign to demand the teacher’s dismissal. The complaint was reinforced by the local mosque, which shared the video with its 60,000 followers on Facebook.
The police have arrested 11 people in connection with the case, including four relatives of the assailant, as well as the parents who launched a campaign against the teacher and several of his acquaintances.
A national ceremony in honor of Paty will be held at the Sorbonne University in Paris tomorrow Wednesday.(See video: Network mask raids, foreigners from Spain ready to sweep the road)
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