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Mourners Gather in Paris to Pay Homage to Decapitated History Teacher - Video

13:03 GMT 18.10.2020 (Updated: 20:40 GMT 19.10.2022)

© AFP 2023 / BERTRAND GUAYPeople hold a vigil and lay flowers and candles next to a placard reading 'I am a teacher, I am Samuel' at the entrance of a middle school in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, 30kms northwest of Paris, on 17 October 2020. History teacher Samuel Paty was beheaded by an attacker after showing his pupils cartoons of the prophet Mohammed. The man suspected of the murder on 16 October 2020 was an 18-year-old who had been born in Moscow and originated from Russia's southern region of Chechnya, a judicial source said on 17 October. Five more people have been detained over the murder including the parents of a child at the school where the teacher was working, bringing to nine the total number currently under arrest, said the source, who asked not to be named. The attack happened at around 5 pm (1500 GMT).

People hold a vigil and lay flowers and candles next to a placard reading 'I am a teacher, I am Samuel' at the entrance of a middle school in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, 30kms northwest of Paris, on 17 October 2020. History teacher Samuel Paty was beheaded by an attacker after showing his pupils cartoons of the prophet Mohammed. The man suspected of the murder on 16 October 2020 was an 18-year-old who had been born in Moscow and originated from Russia's southern region of Chechnya, a judicial source said on 17 October. Five more people have been detained over the murder including the parents of a child at the school where the teacher was working, bringing to nine the total number currently under arrest, said the source, who asked not to be named. The attack happened at around 5 pm (1500 GMT). - Sputnik International

The gruesome murder by beheading, perpetrated by a teenager of Chechen origin in a Parisian suburb, shocked the nation on Friday. The attacker was killed by the police after a pursuit from the murder site.

Sputnik welcomes you to tune in to our livestream from the French capital Paris where mourners are gathering on Sunday to pay their respects to the history teacher who was brutally murdered two days earlier.

The teacher was decapitated outside of his school by an 18-year-old Moscow-born man of Chechen origin in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine.

The victim had shown cartoons of Islamic Prophet Muhammad to his students as part of a discussion on freedom of speech earlier this month.

The police launched a probe into the murder which was joined by the anti-terrorist prosecution.

French President Emmanuel Macron described the assault as a terror act.

Follow our live feed to find out more.