(Radio France) As ceremonies continue on Monday commemorating the second anniversary of the death of secondary schoolteacher Samuel Paty, the French daily newspapers look back on a weekend of memorial events marked by sadness and dignity.
Samuel Paty, teacher of history and geography, was murdered in the street outside his secondary school in Conflans, north-west Paris, on 16 October 2020.
The 47-year-old was decapitated by a young Islamist extremist who claimed he had been motivated to avenge Paty’s use of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed in a class on free speech.
The second anniversary was notable for a rare political unanimity, with President Emmanuel Macron setting the tone with a Twitter message reading “To Freedom, to Equality, to Brotherhood. To Samuel Paty.”
