Jakarta, CNN Indonesia —
French pay homage to school teachers Samuel Paty on Saturday (16/10), a year after he was beheaded by extremists for publishing cartoon prophet muhammad.
Paty was stabbed and then beheaded after leaving the school where she taught history and geography in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, a Paris suburb on October 16, 2020.
Paty’s death shocked France. Educators see it as an attack on the core values teachers teach students from generation to generation, including the separation of church and state and the right to blaspheme.
“Paying respects to Samuel Paty means paying homage to the republic,” French Prime Minister Jean Castex told the families of the victims at a ceremony.
“Samuel Paty is a victim of Islamic terrorism and human cowardice,” he said.
Castex also unveiled a plaque at the entrance of the Ministry of Education that read ‘Respect to Samuel Paty… Killed by Islamic terrorists for teaching and defending republican values, including freedom of expression’.
Another tribute also took place at the school where Paty taught at Conflans-Sainte-Honorine. About a thousand people, including his colleagues and students, attended the inauguration of the monument in his honor, in a book.
Not only that a form of homage was also performed in Paty’s hometown of Eragny-sur-Oise, on the outskirts of Paris and at the Elysee Palace.
While the Twitter account of French President Emmanuel Macron showed a snippet of the image that read ‘Samuel Paty 1973 – 2020’.
Paty’s killer was Abdullakh Anzorov, 18 years old. He said he did it for revenge because Paty showed him a cartoon of Muhammad that was originally printed in Charlie Hebdo magazine.
Paty’s subject matter had angered parents and sparked anger on social media. Paty’s murder has sparked an outburst of emotion in France, with tens of thousands of people demonstrating at home in defense of free speech.
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