Murder of Samuel Paty

The murder of Samuel Paty, a French middle-school teacher, took place on 16 October 2020 in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, a suburb of Paris, France. Paty was beheaded by Abdoullakh Abouyedovich Anzorov, an 18-year-old Muslim, Russian refugee of Chechen origin.

Anzorov killed and beheaded Paty with a knife, and was shot and killed by police minutes later. Anzorov murdered Paty because the teacher had shown his students a Charlie Hebdo cartoon showing the Islamic prophet Muhammad.^[1]^[2]^[3]

French President Emmanuel Macron said that the event was "a typical Islamist terrorist attack", and that "our compatriot was killed for teaching children freedom of speech".

References

↑ Anthony Paone. For a teacher in France, a civics class was followed by a gruesome death (16 October 2020). Retrieved 17 October 2020.
↑ Elaine Ganley. French leader decries terrorist beheading of teacher (17 October 2020). Retrieved 17 October 2020.
↑ Kim Willsher. Teacher decapitated in Paris named as Samuel Paty, 47. The Guardian (17 October 2020).

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[Reuters_Paone-1] Anthony Paone. For a teacher in France, a civics class was followed by a gruesome death (16 October 2020). Retrieved 17 October 2020.

[AP_News-2] Elaine Ganley. French leader decries terrorist beheading of teacher (17 October 2020). Retrieved 17 October 2020.

[auto-3] Kim Willsher. Teacher decapitated in Paris named as Samuel Paty, 47. The Guardian (17 October 2020).

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