DEMONSTRATIONS are planned across France in tribute to a teacher who was beheaded by an attacker after showing his students caricatures of Mohammad.
Samuel Paty was murdered near the school where he worked, in the commune of Conflans Saint-Honorine, northwest of Paris, on Friday.
The suspected killer, who officials said was an 18-year-old Chechen refugee, was armed with a knife and a plastic pellet gun, was later shot dead by officers in a nearby town, police said.
French authorities have launched an anti-terror investigation.
President Emmanuel Macron called it an “assassination” and an “Islamist terrorist attack”.
The leaders of the main political parties, associations and trade unions will demonstrate on Sunday afternoon in Paris, Place de la République, and in many other cities including Lyon, Toulouse, Strasbourg, Nantes, Marseille, Lille and Bordeaux.
The Minister of Education Jean-Michel Blanquer and the Minister Delegate for Citizenship Marlène Schiappa have announced that they
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