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Just days before he was attacked and killed near his workplace in Conflans Saint-Honorine, Samuel Paty, a history and geography teacher, had taught his students a free speech lesson.
During the lesson, it is said that he showed those present a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad. This is to explain the course of events in the bloody terrorist attack on the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo 2015. A 15-year-old student, who met Samuel Paty, tells TV BFM which he did for several years as part of a teaching program.
Father: did not want to discriminate
But this time, the cartoon is said to have upset at least one of the students’ parents who sent a complaint against Samuel Paty and made a post about him on social media. Paty must have received death threats. Rumor has also spread in the school that he was racist and Islamophobic.
But not everyone agreed that this was the case. According to several parents and children at the school, he was a good person who loved his job.
– He did not do this to create controversy, discriminate or insult children, a father of one of Patys’ students, 13, tells BFM TV.
– My son told me he was a very nice person.
National demonstration
On Saturday, President Emmanuel Macron’s staff announced that a national rally for Samuel Paty will be held after dialogue with his family.
No date has been set yet, write The world. During the day, teachers from all over the country have demonstrated under the motto “je suis eseignant”, “I am a teacher”, in solidarity with their deceased colleague.
A total of nine people have been detained by the police since the act. Several of these must be related to the 18-year-old perpetrator and two of the people must be parents of a child at the school where Samuel Paty worked, according to a source from the French prosecution, several media report.
The incident is being investigated as an act of terrorism with an Islamist motive by the French authorities. The perpetrator, said to be of Chechen origin but born in Moscow, is said to have yelled “allahu akbar” when confronted by police and shared images of Samuel Paty’s severed head on social media.
Prosecutor: asked the students for help
On Saturday afternoon, a French prosecutor held a press conference on the case. According to the prosecutor, the 18-year-old terrorist asked the students at the school to point out the teacher before the attack. Before that, the school must have received several threats against him.
According to the prosecutor, one of the people arrested after the event has a half sister who was a member of the IS terrorist group.
