(15 Oct 2021) French schools on Friday were paying tribute to a teacher beheaded by a radical Islamist last year after he showed caricatures of the prophet of Islam to his class.
Samuel Paty, a history and geography teacher, was murdered on October 16 last year near his school in a northwest Paris suburb by an 18-year-old of Chechen origin who had become radicalized.
The attacker was in turn shot dead by police.
The two-day national homage includes a minute of silence to be held in schools on Friday, with teachers to organize a discussion in classes with students around the memory of Paty.
"We are showing first of all that we are not afraid and second, that we are united,"Education Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer said in a speech at a Paris high school.
"There are two things that are fundamental because these are exactly what terrorism is trying to defeat," he added.
Some classrooms and schools will be named after the teacher, he stressed.
A ceremony will take place on Saturday at the Ministry of Education, where a plaque honoring Paty will be unveiled.
His family will also meet with President Emmanuel Macron and Prime Minister Jean Castex, and a gathering will be organized near the teacher's school.
The killing led French authorities to reaffirm France's cherished rights of expression and secularism.

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