French PM pays tribute to slain teacher Samuel Paty on anniversary of his death
French Prime Minister Jean https://www.expatriates.com/cls/49031478.html Castex paid tribute to school teacher Samuel Paty on Saturday, one year after he was beheaded by an extremist after showing his class cartoons of the Muslim Prophet Mohammed. Paty, 47, was stabbed and then decapitated after leaving the middle school where he taught history and geography in the tranquil Paris suburb of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine on the evening of October 16, 2020. Paty's violent death stunned France's educators, who saw it as an attack on the core https://amara.org/en/profiles/account/ values teachers have taught generations of schoolchildren, including the separation of church and state and the right to blaspheme. "Samuel Paty was a https://www.kongregate.com/accounts/alizaothy# victim of Islamist terrorism and human cowardice. To pay tribute to Samuel Paty is to pay tribute to the Republic. Nothing could be worse than forgetting," Castex said during a tribute to Paty at th...