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| time = 17:00Central European Summer Time>CEST| type = Decapitation| fatalities = 2 (including the perpetrator)| victim = Samuel Paty| weapon = Cleaver| perpetrator = Abdoullakh Anzorov| motive = Jihadism, Islamic extremism}}On 16 October 2020, Samuel Paty ({{IPA-fr|samɥɛl pati}}), a French secondary school teacher, was attacked and killed in Éragny-sur-Oise,WEB, Terrorisme : des interpellations après la décapitation de l'enseignant,weblink Devin, Willy Le, Libération.fr, fr, 2020-10-16, 2020-10-30, Île-de-France, France, by an Islamist terrorist.The perpetrator, Abdoullakh Abouyezidovich Anzorov, an 18-year-old Chechen Muslim refugee, killed and beheaded Paty with a cleaver, and was shot and killed by police minutes later. A social media campaign against Paty was linked to his subsequent murder.NEWS, 22 October 2020, France teacher attack: Seven charged over Samuel Paty's killing, en-GB, BBC News,weblink 9 November 2020, One of Paty's students had alleged that in a class on freedom of expression, he had shown his students Charlie Hebdo's 2012 cartoons depicting the Islamic prophet Muhammad, despite the fact that she was absent from the class that day.WEB, Anthony Paone, 16 October 2020, For a teacher in France, a civics class was followed by a gruesome death,weblink live,weblink 17 October 2020, 17 October 2020, Reuters, WEB, Elaine Ganley, 17 October 2020, French leader decries terrorist beheading of teacher,weblink 17 October 2020, Associated Press, WEB, Kim Willsher, 17 October 2020, Teacher decapitated in Paris named as Samuel Paty, 47,weblink live,weblink 17 October 2020, The Guardian, She alleged that one of the cartoons portrayed an image of Muhammad naked with his genitals exposed.NEWS, Demonstrations Pay Homage to French Teacher Beheaded After Lesson on Charlie Hebdo, Wall Street Journal,weblink According to a copy of the lesson plan described by Mr. Ricard, Mr. Paty showed the class two cartoons. The 13-year old girl who made the allegations against Paty has since confessed to lying., WEB, 13-year-old girl lied about French teacher who was later beheaded, her lawyer says,weblink 2021-05-18, www.cbsnews.com, 9 March 2021, en-US, Since then, ten people have been charged with conspiring with and assisting the killer, including an imam, a parent of a student, and two students at Paty's school.French president Emmanuel Macron said that the incident was "a typical Islamist terrorist attack", and that "our compatriot was killed for teaching children freedom of speech". The murder was one of several attacks in France in recent years and the second terrorist attack in France during the 2020 trial, at which alleged accomplices to the January 2015 Île-de-France attacks were to be arraigned for terrorism targeting the cartoons' publishers.WEB, 22 October 2020, France teacher's killer had 'contact' with jihadist in Syria,weblink 10 November 2020, France 24, en, The Paty incident sparked debate in French society and politics. Many Muslims expressed offence at the cartoons, which were also the subject of the previous Charlie Hebdo shooting.WEB, 2020, Muslim-majority countries protest, condemn France over Muhammad cartoons,weblink 1 November 2020, Muslim countries protest. The president of the French Council of the Muslim Faith condemned the murder, as did imams of several mosques. Several Muslim-majority countries, including Turkey, Iran, Jordan and Kuwait and leaders as well as the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation denounced the attack and condemned the publication of the cartoons.NEWS, Willsher, Kim, 26 October 2020, France urges end to boycott of French goods as Macron defends Muhammad cartoons, en-GB, The Guardian,weblink 2 November 2020, 0261-3077, The response of the French government to the murder was criticized by many Muslims,NEWS, Muslim groups urge Macron end 'divisive rhetoric, reject hatred',weblink NEWS, France's Emmanuel Macron seeks to calm tensions with Muslims,weblink [Macron's] comments prompted a wave of protests and criticism from the Muslim world., including Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, some of whom called for a boycott of French goods.NEWS, 25 October 2020, France recalls Turkey envoy after Erdogan says Macron needs 'mental check', en-GB, BBC News,weblink 10 November 2020, In November 2023, six teens went to trial on charges related to the murder.NEWS,weblink Samuel Paty: six teenagers to go on trial in connection with French teacher's beheading, the guardian, 27 November 2023, Chrisafis, Angelique, WEB,weblink French court opens case against teens over beheading of teacher, Al Jazeera, They were found guilty in December 2023 and given brief or suspended prison sentences.WEB,weblink Six teenagers found guilty in connection with the beheading of teacher Samuel Paty, Sky News, December 8, 2023,

Background

{{see also|Islamic terrorism#France}}

Victim

Samuel Paty ({{IPA-fr|samɥɛl pati}}) was born on 18 September 1973 in Moulins, Allier.WEB,weblink Samuel Paty, martyr de la République, Paris, Match, parismatch.com, 31 October 2020, WEB,weblink Samuel Paty : la ville natale de l'enseignant lui rend hommage, RTL.fr, 25 October 2020, WEB, Ramdjan, Tahrim, 18 October 2020, Onthoofde docent Samuel Paty (1973–2020) zocht juist altijd de nuance op,weblink 21 October 2020, Het Parool, nl-NL, He attended Théodore de Banville High School,WEB,weblink Samuel Paty : à Moulins, l'hommage des élèves de son ancien lycée, France 3 Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, 11 February 2020, Lumière University Lyon 2 and the IUFM, Lyon.WEB,weblink Le professeur décapité était un ancien étudiant de l'Université Lumière Lyon 2, Oriane, Mollaret, 17 October 2020, www.lyoncapitale.fr, Paty was a middle-school teacher of history, geography, and civics who taught for five years at the Collège Bois-d'Aulne, in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, France, a suburb {{convert|30|km|mi}} north-west of central Paris.WEB, France terror attack: Teacher decapitated in Paris suburb named as Samuel Paty,weblink Sky News, WEB,weblink France teacher attack: Suspect 'asked pupils to point Samuel Paty out', 17 October 2020, BBC News, He lived ten minutes away from the middle school, in the small town of Éragny, Val-d'Oise.WEB,weblink Conflans attack: who was Samuel Paty, the martyr professor, 18 October 2020, AlKhaleej Today, He was married and had a five-year-old son.NEWS, Teacher decapitated in Paris for showing cartoon of a nude Prophet Mohammad is pictured,weblink 17 October 2020, Mirror, 17 October 2020, NEWS,weblink Social media bosses summoned by French government after terrorist beheads teacher, James, Crisp, Anna, Pujol-Mazzini, 17 October 2020, The Daily Telegraph,

Perpetrator

The perpetrator, Abdoullakh Abouyezidovich Anzorov, was an 18-year-old Russian immigrant of Chechen ethnic descent, born in Moscow, Russia.WEB,weblink Prof d'histoire décapité: l'assaillant, Abdoullakh Anzorov, était un Russe tchétchène de 18 ans, Paris, Match, Paris Match, 17 October 2020, WEB,weblink the 18-year-old killer, who was shot, was a refugee, Al Khaleej Today, 17 October 2020, Chechnya is a Muslim-majority republic and federal subject of the Russian Federation.WEB,weblink Suspect in French teacher's beheading was Chechen teen, police say, 17 October 2020, Associated Press, Anzorov had moved to France with refugee status 12 years earlier as a six-year-old boy.WEB,weblink France beheading suspect had no links with Russia, ewn.co.za, He lived in the La Madeleine district of the Normandy town of Évreux, about 100 km (62 miles) from the murder scene and had no apparent connection with the teacher or the school.WEB,weblink French teacher's attacker 'posted photo of severed head on Twitter', 18 October 2020, South China Morning Post, The Anzorov family moved from the village of Shalazhi in Chechnya. Abdoullakh's father Abuezid moved first to Moscow, and then to Paris. Anzorov's half-sister joined ISIS in Syria in 2014.NEWS,weblink Parent's hate campaign 'led to beheading of French teacher', Peter Conradi, Paris, The Times, WEB,weblinkweblink 18 June 2022, subscription, live, France mourns decapitated teacher at rallies, 18 October 2020, The Independent, In March 2020, the family had received refugee status and 10-year residency cards in France. Abdoullakh was not noticed by security agencies, though he had previously been in court on minor misdemeanour charges.NEWS, WELT, 17 October 2020, Paris: Täter lebte als Flüchtling in Frankreich, DIE WELT,weblink 17 October 2020, Before the attack, he was in communication with two unidentified jihadists in Syria, including one Russian speaker. The jihadists were located through their IP addresses at Idlib, Syria, the last rebel stronghold of the country which was under the control of the Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham organization.WEB, Professeur décapité : le meurtrier était en contact avec un djihadiste russophone en Syrie,weblink Agence-France-Presse, lefigaro.fr, 22 October 2020, 23 October 2020, Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham later denied responsibility for the attack.WEB,weblink Le Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, parrain syrien d'Anzorov ?, Luc, Mathieu, 22 October 2020, Libération.fr, Immediately following the attack, Anzorov claimed responsibility in an audio message in Russian, in which he announced his readiness to be a "shahid" (martyr) and that he would "avenge the prophet" by killing Paty, who had "shown Allah in an insulting manner". In a video broadcast on Instagram, he referred to the Islamic State, among other Islamic terrorist organizations.NEWS, L'assassin était en contact avec un djihadiste russe,weblink Le Matin, 22 October 2020, 23 October 2020, Anzorov's family said they did not understand his actions. Anzorov had displayed signs of radicalization: on 30 August, he had posted a photomontage depicting a beheading on his Twitter account. His Twitter account had been reported to the platform {{ill|PHAROS|fr}} without being tagged for further scrutiny.WEB,weblink Attentat de Conflans : Des échanges entre l'un des pères de famille et le terroriste, On 13 September 2020, he made a Twitter thread denouncing "the infidelity of the Saudi state, of its leaders, as well as all those who support them", a belief which he based on "its participation in the founding of idols worshiped [sic] outside of Allah", referring to the UN, UNESCO, WTO, Gulf Cooperation Council and the Arab League.WEB, Oussama, 19 October 2020, Attaque de Conflans: l'assaillant qui a décapité le professeur Samuel Paty aurait tweeté contre l'Arabie saoudite,weblink 19 November 2020, alNas.fr, fr, While he was already showing signs of radicalization, Anzorov had made two requests for training in security operations through the {{ill|National Council for Private Security Activities|fr|Conseil national des activités privées de sécurité}}, the national licensing body, which were both rejected "because of his involvement in acts of violence". Investigators are uncertain as to whether his requests were made to enable him to access sensitive sites.WEB,weblink Attentat de Conflans : Les ambitions ratées d'Anzorov dans la sécurité privée, Anzorov's body was repatriated from France in December 2020; he was buried in his hometown in the Urus-Martanovsky District in Chechnya. The funeral was attended by about 200 people, some of whom shouted "Allahu Akbar."WEB, 2020-12-07, Chechen Who Beheaded French Teacher Buried on Home Soil – Reports,weblink 2020-12-10, The Moscow Times, en,

Events leading up to the murder

File:Charlie Hebdo Tout est pardonné.jpg|thumb|right|upright|One of the Charlie Hebdo drawings of (Muhammad]] shown by Samuel Paty to his students.WEB, 2020-10-25, Breaking: Video that Motivated Muslim 'Refugee' in France to Behead Teacher Samuel Paty Revealed (Watch), 19 October 2020,weblink )Paty taught a moral and civic education course in early October 2020 on freedom of expression, in accord with the French national curriculum.WEB, Onishi, Norimitsu, Méheut, Constant, 17 October 2020, Suspect Stalked French School Before Beheading Teacher, Officials Say,weblink The New York Times, He showed some of his teenage students a caricature of Muhammad from the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo during a class discussion about freedom of speech. Before showing the caricature, Paty had invited Muslim students to leave the classroom if they wished. According to one student, he had previously shown these cartoons as part of the discussion every year since the Charlie Hebdo shooting in 2015.WEB, 18 October 2020, Thousands rally in France in defiance and solidarity after teacher's beheading,weblink France 24, In the largest Sunni sects of Islam, any depiction of Muhammad is considered blasphemous.According to France’s antiterrorism prosecutor Jean-François Ricard, Paty's lesson plan included two depictions of Muhammad, including one where he is naked with his genitals exposed. However, the exact contents of the lesson are disputed.NEWS, 1 October 2020, Attentat de Conflans : hommage national à l'enseignant assassiné et point sur l'enquête, au lendemain du drame, fr, Le Monde,weblink 17 October 2020, Brahim Chnina,WEB, Steinbuch, Yaron, 20 October 2020, Suspect in French teacher beheading messaged parent who wanted to fire him,weblink 22 October 2020, New York Post, en-US, a female student's father, accused Paty of disseminating pornography to students and filed a criminal complaint with the police.NEWS, Beheaded French teacher was threatened online for showing Mohammed cartoons,weblink Ricard said the school received threats after the class in early October, which featured the controversial caricatures — one of the prophet naked — with the girl's father accusing Paty of disseminating “pornography”. The girl and her father lodged a criminal complaint against the teacher, who in turn filed a complaint of defamation, said Ricard., NEWS, 17 October 2020, Teacher decapitated in Paris named as Samuel Paty, 47, The Guardian,weblink Paty responded by filing a complaint of defamation. Chnina claimed on YouTube and Facebook that Paty had displayed an image of Muhammad nude; he named Paty, and gave the school's address.NEWS, 1 October 2020, Enthauptung eines Lehrers: Eine Hinrichtung mit Ansage, de, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung,weblink 17 October 2020, NEWS, 18 October 2020, French encouraged to take part in 'national cohesion' rallies following killing of teacher Samuel Paty,weblink The Daily Telegraph, Agence France-Presse, Chazan, David, He encouraged other parents to join him in action and mobilise against the teacher, whom he described as a thug.WEB, Causeur.fr, Oukili, Hala, 1 October 2020, Samuel Paty, récit de la chasse à l'homme d'un hussard noir,weblink 17 October 2020, Causeur, fr-FR, WEB, 19 October 2020, 'We are not afraid': France rallies after beheading of teacher,weblink Japan Times, 19 October 2020, 14 June 2021,weblink dead, The Grande Mosque de Pantin published a video on its Facebook page a week before the murder. {{ill|Abdelhakim Sefrioui|fr}}, the imam of the mosque, a member of the , and an Islamist militant known to French anti-terrorism police,NEWS, Mallet, Victor, Islamist killing prompts French crackdown on militants,weblink 20 October 2020, Financial Times, 19 October 2020, accompanied the parent in his protest against the teacher in front of the school for showing the caricatures and demanding to meet the school's principal.NEWS, 22 October 2020, Assassinat de Samuel Paty : que sait-on des sept suspects, dont deux mineurs, mis en examen ?, fr, Sud Ouest,weblink 24 October 2020, Sefrioui called the teacher a "thug" in a video (French: (wikt:voyou|voyou)), while denouncing the administration of the college. He demanded the teacher's exclusion from high school with the rectorate. The term "thug" had been repeatedly used by the parent Brahim Chnina earlier. The videos were taken down in the hours after the murder.WEB, Professeur décapité : Gérald Darmanin annonce la fermeture de la mosquée de Pantin,weblink 21 October 2020, France 3 Paris Ile-de-France, 20 October 2020, fr-FR, Chnina also filed a complaint with the school, and encouraged people to protest at the school. A meeting was held between the head teacher, the teacher, and an official from the education authority. Chnina additionally filed a legal complaint about Paty's lesson, leading the teacher to go to the local police station accompanied by the principal. Paty told investigators he could not understand the complaint because Chnina's daughter was not in class on the day Paty showed the cartoon.In March 2021, Chnina's daughter, known as "Z", admitted she had been suspended from school due to truancy since the day prior to Paty showing the cartoons, and, as such, she had not been in the classroom that day. Instead, she made up the cartoon story to appease her father. According to the Paty family lawyers, however, Brahim Chnina was aware that his daughter had been expelled before the cartoon incident.NEWS, Samuel Paty: French schoolgirl admits lying about murdered teacher,weblink 10 March 2021, BBC, 9 March 2021, NEWS, Samuel Paty murder: how a teenager's lie sparked a tragic chain of events,weblink the Guardian, 8 March 2021, en,

Murder

File:Rue Buisson Moineau.jpg|thumb|175px|Rue du Buisson Moineau in Éragny-sur-OiseÉragny-sur-OiseOn 16 October 2020, a week and a half after Paty's freedom-of-speech class, Anzorov was driven to Paty's school by an alleged accomplice and waited outside the gates of the school. He asked a number of students to point out the teacher.WEB, 17 October 2020, Terror in the Republic: the beheading of Samuel Paty,weblink Spectator USA, 18 October 2020, 18 October 2020,weblink dead, He paid two students, aged 14 and 15, around €300 to identify Paty; the two then waited with Anzorov for two hours until they sighted Paty leaving.NEWS, 21 October 2020, France teacher attack: Students 'paid €300' to identify Samuel Paty, en-GB, BBC News,weblink 9 November 2020, A Friday, it was the last schoolday before a two-week holiday.WEB, 2 November 2020, France's schools reopen with national homage to slain teacher Samuel Paty,weblink 10 November 2020, France 24, en, Anzorov had told them he intended to "hit" and "humiliate" Paty, according to Jean-François Ricard, in order to "make him apologise for the cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad".Anzorov then followed Paty as he left the school. Using a knife {{convert|30|cm|in}} long, Anzorov killed Paty and beheaded him in the Rue du Buisson Moineau in Éragny-sur-OiseWEB, RÉCIT. "J'entends des coups de feu !" : le soir où un terroriste a décapité un professeur, plongeant Conflans-Sainte-Honorine dans l'effroi,weblink Franceinfo, fr, 2020-10-17, 2020-10-29, near the school where Paty taught, at approximately 5:00 p.m.WEB, Conflans attack: A teacher at 'the very heart' of his profession,weblink Yahoo! News, In addition to decapitating Paty, Anzorov inflicted a number of wounds to his head, abdomen, and upper limbs.WEB, Guenfoud, Ibtissem, 16 October 2020, Suspect dead, 9 in custody following beheading of teacher in Paris suburb,weblink ABC7 San Francisco, Witnesses told police they heard the killer shout "Allahu Akbar" (the Takbir) during the attack.NEWS, Chazan, David, Jalil, Jannat, Samuel, Henry, 16 October 2020, Teacher beheaded in Paris suburb after showing cartoons of Prophet Mohammed to class,weblink The Daily Telegraph, Minutes after the murder, an account named @Tchetchene_270 (), identified by prosecutor Jean-François Ricard as belonging to Abdoullakh Anzorov, posted on Twitter an image of Paty's severed head. The photo was accompanied by the message: "In the name of Allah, the most gracious, the most merciful, ... to Macron, leader of the infidels, I executed one of your hellhounds who dared to belittle Muhammad, calm his fellow human beings before a harsh punishment is inflicted on you."WEB, Chiarello, Sybille de La Hamaide, Thierry, 17 October 2020, Teenager asked pupils to identify French teacher before beheading him,weblink Reuters, WEB, 17 October 2020, French authorities detain 11 in connection with teacher's beheading,weblink Politico, The image was seen by many of Paty's students.Minutes later, Anzorov was confronted by police about {{Convert|600|m|yd|abbr=}} from the scene in Éragny, near Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, and the police tried to arrest him. Anzorov shot at the police with an air rifle and tried to stab them with a knife. In response, the police shot him nine times, killing him. On Anzorov's phone, they found a text claiming responsibility and a photograph of Paty's body.

French government response

File:Charlie Hebdo, No. 1057, 19 September 2012, page 16 - Muhammad cartoons.jpg|thumb|Charlie Hebdo, No. 1057, page 16, showing cartoons republished in response to violent Islamist reactions to Innocence of Muslims in 2012, which included the 2012 Benghazi attack and the lynching of the US Ambassador to Libya, J. Christopher Stevens. In 2015, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant perpetrated the Charlie Hebdo shooting in retaliation, killing the magazine's cartoonists Charb, Cabu, Honoré, Tignous and Wolinski.]]President Macron visited the school where Paty had worked, and said that the incident was "a typical Islamist terrorist attack".WEB, 1 October 2020, France: Teacher beheaded in Paris; Macron calls it 'Islamist terrorist attack',weblink 18 October 2020, The Indian Express, en, NEWS, Willsher, Kim, 1 October 2020, Macron speaks of 'existential' fight against terrorism after teacher killed in France, en-GB, The Guardian,weblink 18 October 2020, 0261-3077, He also said: "our compatriot was killed for teaching children freedom of speech".WEB, 'Our compatriot was killed for teaching children freedom of speech': French president Macron over beheading of teacher,weblink 18 October 2020, Free Press Journal, en, French Education Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer called the killing an "attack on the French nation as a whole".WEB, 1 October 2020, Police detain nine people over beheading of French teacher in Paris suburb,weblink 17 October 2020, France 24, en, Jean-Rémi Girard, president of the secondary school teaching union, said teachers were "devastated" but would not be cowed.NEWS, Willsher, Kim, 1 October 2020, French teachers vow to 'teach difficult subjects' after colleague's murder, en-GB, The Observer,weblink 18 October 2020, 0029-7712, France's anti-terrorist prosecutor said the teacher had been "assassinated for teaching," and the attack was an assault on the principle of freedom of expression.Sixteen peopleNEWS, 20 October 2020, France teacher attack: Pupil's father 'exchanged texts with killer', BBC News,weblink were later taken into custody for investigation.WEB, 18 October 2020, France teacher attack: Rallies held to support beheaded Samuel Paty,weblink BBC, WEB, 17 October 2020, Suspect in teacher's beheading in France was Chechen teen,weblink AP News, They included Anzorov's grandparents, parents, and 17-year-old brother.WEB, The 18-year-old killer, who was shot, was a refugee {{!, En24 World|url=https://www.en24news.com/2020/10/the-18-year-old-killer-who-was-shot-was-a-refugee.html|access-date=18 October 2020|language=en-US|archive-date=19 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201019061419weblink|url-status=dead}}WEB, 1 October 2020, French police arrest nine after teacher beheaded in street,weblink 17 October 2020, National Post, Four relatives of the attacker, including a minor, were detained, Also arrested were Sefrioui, Brahim Chnina, the father of a girl in Paty's class,WEB, Beheaded France Teacher had been Target of Threats Since Father of Schoolgirl Posted on Social Media,weblink News18, 18 October 2020, NEWS, 20 October 2020, Social media groups under fire in France over Islamist killing, www.ft.com,weblink who is suspected of issuing a fatwa against Paty, and four students who are suspected of taking money from the killer in exchange for identifying the teacher.NEWS, 21 October 2020, France teacher attack: Seven people to attend court over Samuel Paty's death, BBC News,weblink French police announced that there were more than 80 messages on social media from French people supporting the attacker.WEB, 18 October 2020, Professeur décapité : que sait-on des onze personnes en garde à vue ?,weblink 18 October 2020, France Info, fr, The French Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, ordered that the Grande Mosque de Pantin was to be closed for six months. The mosque, which has about 1,500 worshippers situated just north of Paris, was ordered closed for having published videos inciting violence against Samuel Paty. Its imam, Sefrioui, is under investigation and remains under arrest. The mosque removed the posts after the murder and expressed "regret" over publishing the videos and published instead an announcement condemning the "savagery" of the teacher's killing.NEWS, McAuley, James, France mourns teacher Samuel Paty as government mobilizes against Muslim groups, en-US, Washington Post,weblink 2020-12-12, 0190-8286, Two days after the murder, a defence council ordered the deportation of 231 foreign citizens who were known to security services in the Fiche S register. Of those, 180 were in prison and the rest were to be arrested.WEB, Mort de Samuel Paty : des opérations de police en cours et une cinquantaine d'associations contrôlées, annonce le ministre de l'Intérieur Gérald Darmanin,weblink 19 October 2020, lindependant.fr, fr, The interior minister Gérald Darmanin demanded dissolution of two Islamic NGOs: Collective Against Islamophobia in France (CCIF) and Barakacity, which he described as "enemies" of the state. Both NGOs have been accused{{By whom|date=November 2020}} of taking part in a social media campaign against the teacher, launched by the father of one of his pupils.WEB, France beheading: Minister wants to dissolve Islamic NGOs after murder of teacher Samuel Paty,weblink 19 October 2020, Euronews, 19 October 2020, The CCIF denied participating in such a harassment campaign. According to the prosecutor Jean-François Ricard, speaking on 21 October, there was a "direct causal link" between the hate campaign and Anzorov's murder of Paty.On 21 October a national memorial for Paty, prepared in consultation with his family,{{Citation needed|date=November 2021}} was held at the Sorbonne.NEWS, 21 October 2020, France teacher attack: Students 'paid €300' to identify Samuel Paty, en-GB, BBC News,weblink 21 October 2020, MAGAZINE, Lechevallier, Anne-Sophie, etal, 21 October 2020, L'hommage national à Samuel Paty en images, The national tribute to Paty in images,weblink Paris Match, fr, President Macron awarded the posthumously to Paty.JOURNAL, Henley, Jon, 21 October 2020, Samuel Paty posthumously awarded French Légion d'honneur: Two teenage pupils charged with complicity in terrorist murder as slain teacher given France's highest civilian award,weblink The Guardian, Texts read at the ceremony included Jean Jaurès's Lettre aux instituteurs et institutrices ({{literal translation|letter to the teachers}}).MAGAZINE, Auffray, Alain, 22 October 2020, Hommage de Macron à Samuel Paty: 'Nous continuerons, professeur', Tribute of Macron to Paty: 'We will continue professor',weblink Libération, fr, In an address of around 15 minutes, Macron described Paty as "a quiet hero" and stated that "we will not give up cartoons". Macron also announced that the "Sheikh Yassin Collective" founded by Sefrioui to support Hamas would be dissolved, as having been "directly implicated" in the murder.WEB, 21 October 2020, France honours beheaded teacher as judge questions suspects,weblink 10 November 2020, France 24, en, The government was reported to be preparing to dissolve a further fifty organizations connected with radical Islam.On 23 October, the Bibliothèque nationale de France published an introduction to Jaurès's letter, linking to a digitized version of its entire content.WEB, Sandras, Agnès, 23 October 2020, La lettre 'aux Instituteurs et Institutrices' de Jean Jaurès (1888), The letter 'to the teachers' by Jean Jaurès (1888),weblink Bibliothèque nationale de France, 10.58079/pms3, fr, La Dépêche, the newspaper in which the letter had originally been published in 1888, republished the text a few days later.MAGAZINE, Marcelle, Sébastien, 2 November 2020, Laïcité à l'école: la "Lettre aux instituteurs et institutrices" de Jean Jaurès avait été publiée dans La Dépêche en 1888, Secularity at school: the "Letter to the teachers" by Jean Jaurès was published in La Dépêche in 1888,weblink La Dépêche du Midi, La Dépêche, fr, Meanwhile, minister Blanquer had selected the letter to be read in schools when pupils would return there after a two-week holiday (Paty had been murdered at the start of that holiday shortly after lessons had finished). The fact that only bowdlerized versions of Jaurès's letter had been distributed to the schools was criticised, for example in an article published in Libération, which prompted the minister to make the entire letter available, just in time for the commemorations for Paty which were held in schools all over France at 11:00 on Monday 2 November.MAGAZINE, York, Joanna, 2 November 2020, 12 million French students remember teacher Samuel Paty,weblink The Connexion, MAGAZINE, Souchay, Grégoire, 2 November 2020, Hommage à Samuel Paty: l'étrange tripatouillage de la lettre de Jean Jaurès, Tribute to Paty: strange shenanigans with Jean Jaurès's letter,weblink Libération, fr, That Monday was the first schoolday since the attack and the Prime Minister of France, Jean Castex, attended the commemoration at Paty's school, the Collège Bois-d'Aulne, which itself did not open to its pupils until the following day. During the commemorative ceremony on 2 November across France, more than 400 incidents of threats and interruptions were recorded; several youths were arrested.

Prosecutions

By 22 October seven people had been charged, of which five were in police custody (the two schoolchildren were legal minors). Three of Anzorov's friends were charged with abetting in the crime: two accused of "complicity in a terrorist murder" and another of "terrorist association". One of the pair accused of complicity was alleged to have assisted Anzorov in acquiring a weapon, while the other drove him to the scene of the crime. A 48-year-old parent of a student at Paty's school, named as "Brahim C", was accused of communicating by text message with Anzorov and of organising the campaign of hate against Paty; he had made videos insulting the teacher and demanding his suspension. The imam Abdelhakim Sefrioui, who also appeared in videos castigating Paty, was himself in custody, and Gérald Darmanin told radio station Europe 1 that Brahim C and Sefrioui had issued a fatwa condemning Paty.By 6 November, ten people were being prosecuted, including another 18-year-old of Chechen origin, a French 18-year-old, and a 17-year-old girl, all charged with "criminal terrorist conspiracy" having been arrested in eastern France, far from either Paris or Évreux.NEWS, 6 November 2020, Three teens charged in French teacher's beheading,weblink 19 November 2020, France 24, en, In Pontoise, an Algerian man was convicted of glorifying terrorism and sentenced to six months in custody for calling the murderer a martyr; he was to be deported at the end of the sentence and banned from France for a decade. Three people between the ages of 15 and 17 were arrested and charged on Friday, 6 November with "supporting terrorism", having made threats during the national commemorations of Paty's life that Monday. Further prosecutions were planned in around a dozen of the more serious incidents of over 400 interruptions of the commemoration that took place on the same day according to the education minister Jean-Michel Blanquer.The schoolgirl has been charged with slander. Her father, Brahim Chnina is under investigation for complicity of the murder.In December 2023, six teenagers were found guilty and sentenced in connection with the murder. They were all given brief or suspended prison sentences, with provisions to stay in school or work during their terms and undergo regular medical checkups.

Law against Islamist extremism

After the murder of Paty, a bill was put forward to fight Islamist extremism and separatism to fight the roots of jihadist violence. It was approved by the National Assembly in February 2021.WEB, 2021-02-16, French MPs approve bill to combat Islamist extremism,weblink 2021-02-17, France 24, en, A new bill was introduced, which makes it unlawful to threaten a public servant in order to gain an exception or special treatment which carries a penalty of up to five years in prison. The legislation expands the powers of authorities to close places of worship and religious organisations when they promote "hate or violence". The law requires religious funds from abroad exceeding €10,000 to be declared and the relevant accounts to be certified, so as to regulate the donations from countries such as Turkey, Qatar and Saudi Arabia. Millions of euros in funding had previously reached France from countries such as Turkey, Morocco and Saudi Arabia.It provides stricter rules for allowing home-schooling in order to prevent parents taking children out of school in order to let them pursue their education in underground Islamist institutions. Doctors performing virginity tests would be subject to fines or prison sentences. These changes were prompted by a number of cases of Muslim men trying to have their marriages annulled by accusing their spouse of having had sex before marriage. Authorities will have to refuse residency documents to applicants who practise polygamy.NEWS, WELT, 2020-12-09, Islamismus in Frankreich: Neue Gesetze verbieten "Jungfräulichkeits-Atteste", DIE WELT,weblink 2021-02-17, Forced marriage, which The French ministry of the interior states affects 200,000 women in France,WEB, PROTÉGER les femmes des pratiques traditionnelles néfastes,weblink Ministère de l'Intérieur, 20 January 2024, was likewise required to be combated with greater scrutiny from registrars.

Other reactions

File:Rassemblement collège conflans 17 10 20 - fleurs 1.jpg|thumb|Flower arrangement in honor of Samuel Paty in front of the Bois-d'Aulne college, in Conflans-Sainte-HonorineConflans-Sainte-HonorineFile:Hôtel de ville de Lille - drapeaux et affiche "Je suis enseignant" (Samuel Paty).jpg|thumb|Je suis enseignant sign outside the Hôtel de ville de LilleHôtel de ville de LilleThe hashtags {{em|#JeSuisProf}} and {{em|#JeSuisEnseignant}}, both meaning "I am a teacher", were launched in support of the victim and in support of freedom of expression.WEB, 1 October 2020, "Je suis prof": après l'horreur, une vague d'hommages au professeur assassiné dans les Yvelines,weblink 18 October 2020, Orange Actualités, fr, The name alludes to the hashtag #JeSuisCharlie, launched as a token of solidarity in the aftermath of the 2015 Islamist attack on the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, which had published cartoons depicting Muhammad.WEB, France terror attack: Beheading of teacher heightens debate about Islamist terrorism and freedom of speech,weblink 18 October 2020, Sky News, en, Charlie Hebdo issued a statement expressing its "horror and revolt" and extending its support to the family and friends of Paty.WEB, 1 October 2020, Decapitated professor – The satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo expresses its feeling...,weblink 18 October 2020, AlKhaleej Today, ar, Charlie Hebdo caricatures were displayed on regional authority buildings () in Toulouse and Montpellier.WEB, Montpellier : 6 unes de Charlie Hebdo sur la façade de l'hôtel de Région,weblink 21 October 2020, lindependant.fr, fr, Rallies in protest against the murder, and criticising the government's ineffective response to radical Islam, took place in Place de la République in Paris, and in other cities across France.NEWS, France-Presse Agence, 1 October 2020, French encouraged to take part in 'national cohesion' rallies following killing of teacher Samuel Paty, en-GB, The Telegraph,weblink 18 October 2020, 0307-1235, WEB,weblink France terror attack: Thousands gather in Paris to honour murdered teacher, Sky News, The demonstrators held various placards with statements such as "Je suis Samuel" and "Schools in mourning" written on them.NEWS, Henley, Jon, 1 October 2020, Thousands rally across France in tribute to murdered schoolteacher, en-GB, The Guardian,weblink 19 October 2020, 0261-3077, The demonstrators also chanted "Freedom of expression, freedom to teach", or sang "La Marseillaise," the French national anthem. Politicians, academics, and envoys joined the demonstrations across France.WEB, 'We are not afraid': France rallies after teacher beheaded,weblink 19 October 2020, Al Jazeera, en, In Lyon around 12,000 joined the demonstrations, in Toulouse approximately 5,000 turned out, and hundreds more assembled in Nice.The French Council of the Muslim Faith (CFCM), the main interlocutor of the public authorities on Islam, condemned the assassination and on Thursday, 22 October provided the Imams of France with a text that they could use as inspiration for their Friday prayers in response to the attack. In it, CFCM noted that "The horrible assassination ... reminds us of the scourges that sadly mark our reality: that of the eruption in our country of radicalism, violence and terrorism claiming to be Islam, claiming victims of all ages, all conditions and all convictions." "No, we Muslims are not persecuted in France," the authors continued. "We are sometimes targets of anti-Muslim acts, but others are also victims of hostile acts. In the face of these provocations, we must remain decent, serene and clear-sighted."WEB, Attentat à Conflans : Le CFCM propose un prêche aux imams de France,weblink 22 October 2020, 23 October 2020, fr, 20 Minutes, WEB, Mansouri, Fethi, Barton, Greg, For French Muslims, every terror attack brings questions about their loyalty to the republic,weblink 30 October 2020, 7 November 2020, The Conversation, en, On 1 November, the CFCM organized a meeting to discuss the training of religious executives and a plan to fight radicalization.WEB, CFCM : plan anti-radicalisation et formation des imams au programme après Conflans,weblink 24 October 2020, 7 November 2020, leparisien.fr, fr-FR, WEB, Le culte musulman veut avancer sur la formation des imams et la prévention de la radicalisation,weblink 1 November 2020, Ouest France, fr, Various avenues are studied, in particular "carrying out theological work on the misguided concepts of the Muslim religion" and "carrying out collegial work on the Friday sermon in order to disseminate a strong word from religious executives carried by imams".WEB, Le culte musulman s'est réuni sur la formation des imams et la prévention de la radicalisation,weblink 1 November 2020, 7 November 2020, BFMTV, fr, Other Muslims in France accused the government of a "heavy-handed clampdown" on their communities in the aftermath of the murder.Many Muslims and religious leaders in France condemned the act.WEB, Paris Beheading: Muslims in France condemn teacher's killing,weblink 18 October 2020, 18 October 2020, Free Press Journal, en, In a tweet, Chems-Eddine Hafiz, rector of the Grand Mosque of Paris, called on the imams of his federation to dedicate their preaching the following Friday to the memory of Samuel Paty and to the fight against Islamist terrorism.WEB, 19 October 2020, Enseignant décapité : le recteur de la Grande mosquée de Paris demande aux imams de consacrer le prêche de vendredi à Samuel Paty,weblink 7 November 2020, Franceinfo, fr-FR, According to Europe 1, "almost everywhere in France", imams respond to the rector's call, paying homage to the murdered history teacher.WEB, L'hommage à Samuel Paty dans les mosquées : "L'islam se désavoue de ces fanatiques",weblink 7 November 2020, Europe 1, 23 October 2020, fr, In a press release, the Rhône Mosques Council () condemned "blind hatred" and "murderous madness" and affirms that the religion of which the terrorist "proclaims himself does not recognize itself in him". The signatories of the press release, who come from around thirty mosques, declare that they are committed "to strengthening the study of the ideological foundations of extremist thought and the fight against those who feed it, feed it and finance it". The website {{Interlanguage link|Saphirnews|lt=|fr||WD=}} published a joint statement of 30 imams calling on "Muslim youth to go to qualified imams and theologians, in their spiritual quest, so as not to fall into obscurantism".NEWS, 19 October 2020, Après l'attentat de Conflans, de nombreux imams condamnent l'assassinat de Samuel Paty, fr, Le Monde.fr,weblink 7 November 2020, The attack on Paty polarised French people and politicians alike and led to a public debate on how Islam should be integrated or assimilated into French secular society. One theme of the debate concerned the education of imams which in part come from abroad.NEWS, Balmer, Rudolf, 26 October 2020, Debatte über Islamismus in Frankreich: Ins Wespennest der Laizität, de, Die Tageszeitung: taz,weblink 1 November 2020, 0931-9085, The terrorist attack also highlighted the problems France faced with integrating foreigners into the French society in a country which was becoming increasingly racially and ethnically diverse and the political establishment formed a consensus that two or three generations of "newcomers" had struggled to integrate.NEWS, Onishi, Norimitsu, Méheut, Constant, 27 October 2020, A Teacher, His Killer and the Failure of French Integration, en-US, The New York Times,weblink 29 October 2020, 0362-4331, An opinion poll carried out by Institut français d'opinion publique (Ifop) found that 87% of the respondents considered the secularist society in France () was under threat and 79% agreed that Islamism had declared war on France and the French Republic. The poll found that 89% of the respondents thought the threat of terrorism was high, 38% of which said it was very high. This was a significant increase when compared with the data of the previous month, though the statistic had exceeded the 50% mark during the spate of Islamist attacks in France during 2015.WEB, Le regard des Français sur la menace terroriste et l'islamisme,weblink 22 October 2020, 28 October 2020, IFOP, fr-FR, File:Hommage Samuel Paty Saint-Denis 17 octobre 2020.jpg|Tribute to Paty, in front of the town hall in Seine-Saint-DenisFile:2020-10-18 14-58-10 rassemblement-Belfort.jpg|Gathering at the Place de la République, in Belfort, paying tribute to PatyFile:Rassemblement Samuel Paty le 18 oct 2020 Place de la République Paris un imam.jpg|French Muslims in attendance at a tribute for Paty, in Place de la RépubliqueFile:Rassemblement Samuel Paty le 18 oct 2020 Place de la République Paris.jpg|Gathering in homage to Samuel Paty, at Place de la République in ParisFile:Rassemblement interreligieux Samuel Paty Strasbourg 22 octobre 2020.jpg|Interfaith gathering at Strasbourg Cathedral

Turkey; Erdoğan–Macron dispute

File:Meeting between the leaders of Russia, Turkey, Germany and France (cropped, Macron and Erdogan).jpg|thumb|Emmanuel Macron, right, and Recep Tayyip ErdoğanRecep Tayyip ErdoğanThe position which was taken by Macron was condemned by the AK Party, the party which dominates the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, the Nationalist Movement Party, the Republican People's Party, the party which represents the secular opposition, and the Good Party, but one opposition party, the Peoples' Democratic Party did not sign the joint declaration which condemned Macron's words.NEWS, 30 October 2020, Turkish parliament condemns remarks by France's Macron in cartoon row, en, Reuters,weblink 30 October 2020, Following actions and statements by French President Macron, such as his description of Islam as a religion "in crisis" worldwide, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan questioned Macron's mental healthNEWS, France reacts after Erdogan questions Macron's mental health, en, ABC News,weblink 27 October 2020, and called for a boycott of French goods.NEWS, Caroline Alexander, Zainab Fattah, 27 October 2020, Muslim world faces divide after Erdogan takes on France for its crackdown on radical Islam, en-US, ThePrint,weblink 27 October 2020, NEWS, 26 October 2020, Turkey's Erdogan urges French goods boycott amid Islam row, en-GB, BBC News,weblink 10 November 2020, Erdoğan claimed that Muslims in France were being "subjected to a lynch campaign similar to that against Jews in Europe before World War II", and he also stated that "European leaders should tell the French president to stop his hate campaign". Erdoğan asked "What's the problem of the individual called Macron with Islam and with the Muslims?" and "What else can be said to a head of state who does not understand freedom of belief and who behaves in this way to millions of people living in his country who are members of a different faith?"In response to Erdoğan's remarks, France recalled its ambassador to Turkey, and a presidential spokesperson said: "President Erdogan's{{Sic}} comments are unacceptable. Excess and rudeness are not a method. We demand that Erdogan change the course of his policy because it is dangerous in every respect." In support of Macron, German government spokesman Steffen Seibert said of Erdoğan's behaviour: "They are defamatory comments that are completely unacceptable, particularly against the backdrop of the horrific murder of the French teacher Samuel Paty by an Islamist fanatic", while the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Heiko Maas, said Erdoğan's insulting language was "a particular low point". The Prime Minister of Italy, Giuseppe Conte, wrote that "personal insults do not help the positive agenda that the EU wants to pursue with Turkey", and the Prime Minister of the Netherlands, Mark Rutte, stated that his country "stands firmly with France and for the collective values of the European Union". The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, was also supportive of Macron's position.In response to Erdoğan's insults, Macron published a message on Twitter in English, French, and Arabic, stating: "Our history is one of a battle against tyranny and fanaticisms. We will continue, … we respect all differences in a spirit of peace. We will never accept hate speech and we defend reasonable debate. We will continue. We hold ourselves always on the side of human dignity and universal values".In response to Erdoğan's position, Charlie Hebdo published a cartoon which mocked the Turkish president on the front page of its magazine on 27 October. On Twitter, Fahrettin Altun, Erdoğan's press secretary, wrote that "We condemn this most disgusting effort by this publication to spread its cultural racism and hatred".

Other countries

After President Macron defended the publication of cartoons in a tribute to Paty, there were calls in some Muslim countries to boycott French products.NEWS, Salem, Mostafa, Bairin, Pierre, Liakos, Chris, Schmidt, Nadine, Dean, Sarah, 27 October 2020, Calls to boycott French products grow in Muslim world after Macron backs Mohammed cartoons,weblink CNN, NEWS,weblink UN strongly condemns knife attack inside Nice church which left three dead, 29 October 2020, UN News, United Nations, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi,NEWS, 28 October 2020, Egypt says freedom of expression 'stops' when Muslims offended, Reuters UK,weblink 28 October 2020, the Malaysian government,NEWS, 30 October 2020, Malaysia condemns 'provocative acts', defamation of Islam as anger over French cartoon mounts, en, The Straits Times,weblink 30 October 2020, and the Foreign Ministry of MoroccoNEWS, Kasraoui, Safaa, 25 October 2020, Morocco Condemns Cartoons Insulting Islam, Prophet Muhammad, en-US, Morocco World News,weblink 31 October 2020, said that freedom of expression does not apply to insulting Islam or Muslims, and Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan said that Macron was promoting Islamophobia.NEWS, Hashim, Asad, Pakistan says Macron 'encourages Islamophobia', summons envoy, en, www.aljazeera.com,weblink 27 October 2020, Some French goods were removed from shops in Jordan, Kuwait, and Qatar,NEWS, Willsher, Kim, 27 October 2020, Muslim backlash against Macron gathers pace after police raids, en-GB, The Guardian,weblink 10 November 2020, 0261-3077, NEWS, 25 October 2020, France urges Arab nations to prevent boycotts over Macron's cartoons defence, en-GB, BBC News,weblink 16 November 2020, and hundreds of travel agencies in Kuwait suspended booking flights to France. Protests were also held in Bangladesh, Iraq, and Libya against Macron and his defense of the caricatures.NEWS, Alam, Julhas, Thousands in Bangladesh protest against French cartoons, en, ABC News,weblink 28 October 2020, The Egyptian Foreign Ministry, the Indian Ministry of External Affairs, the Saudi Arabia Foreign Ministry, and the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned the murder,NEWS, Egypt expresses 'utmost condemnation' of beheading of French teacher in Paris suburb – Politics – Egypt, en, Ahram Online,weblink 18 October 2020, NEWS, Press Statement on personal attacks in unacceptable language on French President Emmanuel Macron, www.mea.gov.in,weblink 28 October 2020, WEB, 26 October 2020, Condolences from Turkey to Samuel Paty's relatives from October 17,weblink 21 November 2020, The Canadian, en-US, with the Indian ministry also condemning personal attacks against Macron.Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau said that freedom of expression has limits, citing the example of shouting fire in a crowded theater. Trudeau's remarks were criticized in Canada and in France. Trudeau subsequently clarified his position to reaffirm the importance of defending freedom of expression.NEWS, 6 November 2020, Trudeau and Macron speak after cartoon remark controversy, en-GB, BBC News,weblink 19 November 2020, In Iran, the French delegation was summoned to protest what the government described as France's permission of "hatred against Islam under the guise of support for freedom of expression". Clerics at the Shia holy city of Qom denounced Macron and the Charlie Hebdo cartoons, calling for economic sanctions against France from Iran and the wider Islamic world.In Qatar, a week of French cultural events at Qatar University was postponed on account of what described as "deliberate attack on Islam and its symbols".Ramzan Kadyrov, Head of the Chechen Republic, one of the federal subjects of Russia, criticized Macron's position on free speech.NEWS, 27 October 2020, Chechen leader says Macron stance on cartoons inspires terrorists, en, Reuters,weblink 11 November 2020, He wrote: "You are forcing people into terrorism, pushing people towards it, not leaving them any choice, creating the conditions for the growth of extremism in young people's heads. You can boldly call yourself the leader and inspiration of terrorism in your country". Kadyrov, once a rebel in the First Chechen War, had recently supported Russia in the military suppression of the Islamist insurgency in the North Caucasus and sought to minimize the significance of the killer's place of birth by pointing to his upbringing in France. He wrote on Instagram that showing cartoons of Muhammad was not to be labelled free speech.An independent member of the Assembly of the Representatives of the People of Tunisia, {{Interlanguage link|Rached Khiari|lt=|fr||WD=}}, who was initially elected on a religious right-wing platform with {{Interlanguage link|Coalition de la dignité|lt=al-Karama|fr||WD=}}, justified the attack on Facebook.WEB, Tunisian MP probed for allegedly glorifying beheading of French teacher,weblink 18 October 2020, 11 November 2020, Deutsche Welle, en-GB, The public prosecution service in Tunisia opened an investigation into his comments; the spokesman of the {{Interlanguage link|Droit tunisien#Tribunaux de première instance|lt=Court of First Instance|fr||WD=}} in Tunis and deputy public prosecutor said the comments were classifiable as a crime of terrorism, as anti-terrorism legislation punishes the glorification or praise of terrorist attacks with a sentence of up to five years in prison.

International organisations

Leaders of the 27 member states of the European Union released a joint statement condemning the attack on Samuel Paty and the 2020 Nice stabbing encouraging dialogue and understanding between societies and religions. They called the attacks an assault on their values.WEB, Paaske, Claus, 30 October 2020, EU's stats og regeringschefer fordømmer terrorangreb i Frankrig,weblink 1 November 2020, Politiken, da-DK, Sheikh Muhammad bin Abdul Karim Issa, Secretary General of the Muslim World League, said "acts of violence and terrorism [were] crimes in all religions," suggesting further that such situations might be avoided by "refrain[ing] from stirring hatred by insulting religion." He made an appeal against the unnecessary incitement of violence through the circulation of incendiary literature.NEWS, 1 October 2020, Saudi Arabia leads Arab and Muslim world in condemning terrorist murder of French teacher, en, Arab News,weblink 19 October 2020, The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation said that although it denounced "all acts of terror in the name of religion", it would continue to oppose the "continued publication" of "blasphemous cartoons". It added that it was the "suggestions of certain French leaders … that risk submerging French–Muslim relations".In a press statement released on 17 October 2020, Miguel Ángel Moratinos, High Representative of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC), strongly condemned the murder, saying that "such heinous crime is unjustifiable whenever, wherever and by whomsoever committed".NEWS, Saad, Nihal, 17 October 2020, Press Statement on Decapitating a French Teacher in a Paris Suburb, United Nations Alliance of Civilizations,weblink NEWS, 18 October 2020, UNAOC decries beheading of French teacher: The UNAOC chief stressed that togetherness, peace and tolerance are rooted in religions across the faith spectrum, Asian Lite News,weblink

Media coverage

According to researcher Liam Duffy, anglophone media reporting in Britain and the United States received criticism in France for misrepresenting the attack and presenting France as the villain. Of the two most influential newspapers, The New York Times and The Washington Post, neither used the term jihadism in their reports according to expert {{ill|Hugo Micheron|fr}}. In other American reporting, information on the problems caused by Islamic extremism was largely absent while there were numerous warnings of rising nationalism and a French "crackdown on Islam". The criticism did not encompass The Financial Times, which was instead praised for having interviewed teachers in France.WEB, 2020-10-29, Why is the Anglo media portraying France as the villain?,weblink 2020-12-12, UnHerd, en-GB,

See also

• 2020 Nice stabbing
• 2022 Muhammad remarks controversy
• Arras school stabbing
• Islam and blasphemy
• Islam and violence
• Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy
• The Satanic Verses controversy
• List of Islamist terrorist attacks
• Square Samuel-Paty in Paris

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