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Added on the 15/10/2021 15:03:41 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
The coffin of French history teacher Samuel Paty, who was beheaded for showing cartoons of the Prophet Mohamed in a lesson on free speech, arrives at a high-level ceremony attended by President Emmanuel Macron at the Sorbonne university in Paris. IMAGES
French Minister of Education Jean-Michel Blanquer visits a Parisian high school as establishments across France pay tribute to French teacher Samuel Paty, who was killed a year ago for showing his students cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, in a class about French values. IMAGES
Some 750 pupils from the Bois d'Aulne secondary school in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine (Yvelines) return to classes a day later than scheduled Tuesday, following a two-week break for holidays. On October 16, Samuel Paty, a history teacher, was beheaded outside the school by a jihadist. The rest of France's 12m pupils returned to classes on Monday. IMAGES
Thousands take part in tribute march in memory of local teenager fatally stabbed at a dance last weekend in rural southwestern France. IMAGES
Pupils, teachers and parents are paying tribute to Samuel Paty, the history and geography teacher murdered in an Islamist attack three years ago today in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine near Paris. The commemoration comes as another teacher was killed by a radicalised former pupil on Friday in northern city of Arras. IMAGES