Teachers Beheaded for Cartoons of the Prophet Received Legion Award …

PARIS – Samuel Paty, a 47-year-old history teacher beheaded in terror attack last week, posthumously will get the highest award French. This was expressed by the French Minister of Education Jean-Michel Blanquer.

Blanquer said Paty would get France’s top award, the “Legion d’Honneur”, as quoted by Reuters, Tuesday (20/10/2020).

The Légion d’honneur or Order national de la Legion d’honneur (National Order of the Legion of Honor) is a sign of France’s highest honor which has the motto Honneur et Patrie (“Honor and Motherland”). This mark of honor is given to those, whether civilian or military, who are considered to have made important contributions to the country.

Samuel Paty was murdered on Friday in broad daylight outside his school in a middle-class suburb of Paris. The teacher from the city of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine was brutally murdered by Abdulak Abuezidovich A (18) on his way home last week. The perpetrator was an ethnic Chechen, Russian man.(Also read: Chechen leaders affirm that the perpetrators of teacher beheading in France were not citizens)

The teenager attempted to retaliate against his victim’s use of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad in a class on freedom of expression. Muslims consider the depiction of the Prophet Muhammad an insult.

The killings stunned France, and alerted the public to the attacks five years ago on the offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. A massive demonstration attended by thousands of people took place in the French capital, Paris, on Sunday in memory of a teacher who was beheaded in a terror attack. The teacher named Samuel Paty was beheaded by a man after showing a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad while giving a lesson on freedom of expression in his class.(Also read: Teacher Beheaded for Cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad Trigger Big Demonstrations in France)

Public figures called the killings an attack on the Republic and French values. Meanwhile, an imam of a mosque on the outskirts of Paris, France, apologized while paying his respects in front of Paty’s campus.

On the other hand, the cartoon that Paty showed in class also sparked a wave of anger among some parents of Muslim students, with one of them even launching an online campaign to demand that the teacher be fired. The complaint was reinforced by the local mosque, which shared the video with its 60,000 followers on Facebook.

Police have detained 11 people in connection with the case, including four relatives of the assailant, as well as the parents who launched a campaign against the teacher, and several of his acquaintances.

A national ceremony in honor of Paty will be held at the Sorbonne university of Paris tomorrow Wednesday.(Watch video: Netted Mask Raids, Foreigners from Spain Willing to Sweep the Way)

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