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Samuel Paty was assassinated for “embodying the Republic,” criticized French President Emanuel Macron during a ceremony dedicated to the 47-year-old teacher who was stabbed to death after teaching about freedom of expression and showing so-called Muhammad cartoons.
The coffin of murdered teacher Samuel Patys remains outside the Sorbonne University in Paris, where a national memorial service was held on Wednesday. French President Emanuel Macron spoke at the ceremony.
– We do not end with the cartoons, said the French president in his speech at the solemn ceremony on Wednesday night that took place in the courtyard in front of the Sorbonne University.
About 400 guests, including Samuel Paty’s family, were present when the murder victim was honored.
Paty was killed last Friday in the Parisian suburb of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, near the school where she worked. Then they cut off his head. The alleged perpetrator, Abdullakh Anzoroven, an 18-year-old Russian of Chechen origin, was shot dead by the police in connection with the intervention.
Some time before the deadly attack, the teacher gave a lecture on freedom of expression in which he showed cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. Students who did not want to see the images were offered to leave the classroom or were asked to close their eyes before the images were shown.
Soon some of the students’ parents were outraged that Muhammad cartoons had been shown and demanded that Samuel Paty be fired.
– He was assassinated because the Islamists want our future, Macron continued, adding that “they will never get it.”
Earlier in the day, French counterterrorism prosecutor Jean-François Ricard confirmed that Abdullakh Anzorov had paid students to target Paty.
In total, it must have been a sum of between 300 and 350 euros (approximately 3,000 to 3,500 Swedish crowns).
According to Ricard, the investigation has concluded that the murderer had the name of the victim. But he didn’t know what Paty was like.
The counterterrorism prosecutor says the 18-year-old gave money to a student outside of school. Then more students joined and were offered to receive money as well. Some of the students left the premises outside the school, while two stayed. They waited with the alleged killer for more than two hours for the teacher to appear.
According to Jean-François Ricard, the 18-year-old would have told the students that he wanted to “humiliate and beat” Samuel Paty and force him to apologize for showing the cartoons.
The two students who helped the killer are 14 and 15 years old. They will be prosecuted, says Ricard.
– She was able to identify him (Paty) because she had the help of the school’s students.
The two teenagers are now part of a group of seven who will be prosecuted under the criminal classification “preparation for terrorist murder.”
Jean-François Ricard also confirms the information that contact had been established between the alleged murderer and the father of a student, who on social media had demanded that Samuel Paty be fired.
The murder has sparked strong reactions and led to widespread demonstrations in France.
