ISLAMIC TERRORIST BEHEADS FRENCH TEACHER

French teacher was beheaded by Islamist terrorist for showing his class Charlie Hebdo's cartoons of Mohammed - after one Muslim pupil complained to her parents and sparked community outrage

 

Daily Mail

October 16, 2020 

 

The French teacher who was beheaded by a suspected Islamist terrorist yesterday for showing his class cartoons lampooning the Prophet Mohammed has today been identified as Samuel Paty. 

 

The 47-year-old had received threats before he was stabbed and decapitated by 18-year-old Chechen gunman Aboulakh A in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, around 25 miles north-west of Paris. 

 

Muslim parents had taken offence at Mr Paty's decision to show his class caricatures of the Prophet and branded him a 'thug' in a video shared online by a Paris mosque just days before he was murdered. 

 

He had 'invited Muslim students out of the classroom' before showing a Charlie Hebdo caricature of the Prophet crouching with a star drawn on his buttocks and the inscription 'A star is born'. 

 

A father of a 13-year-old pupil at the secondary school in middle-class Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, a suburb 25 miles from the centre of Paris, told Reuters Mr Paty had told any Muslim students to leave because the cartoon would likely cause offence. 

 

One girl, thought to be Muslim, stayed behind by mistake, and later told her parents. They made a legal complaint to the school and held a meeting with the teacher, school principal and an official from the education authority. 

 

Mr Paty was then stabbed and decapitated by Russian national Aboulakh A, a suspected Islamist terrorist, yesterday at 5pm who shouted 'Allahu Akbar' as he launched his attack. 

 

The attacker was shot dead by police about 600 yards from the killing when he refused to drop his weapons and threatened the officers. 

 

Nine people have been arrested, including the parents of a child at the school who had signalled their disagreement with the teacher's decision to show the cartoon, a judicial source said today.