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France held a national memorial service for the teacher Samuel Paty, who was murdered in an Islamist attack.
Britta Sandberg, Der SPIEGEL:
"It was a very moving memorial service that took place today in the courtyard of the Sorbonne University in Paris in honor of the dead teacher Samuel Patsy. It was designed in close cooperation with the family of the dead. He had previously awarded the Legion of Honor in a small circle There were speakers, friends of the family, students and teachers, before President Emmanuel Macron paid tribute to party. "
Emmanuel Macron, French President:
"Samuel Paty became the face of the republic on Friday. The face of our desire to break terrorism, to weaken the Islamists, to live as a community of free citizens in our country. The face of our determination to understand, learn, continue to teach , to be free."
Britta Sandberg, Der SPIEGEL:
"Tonight he will not talk about the fight against terrorism, he had previously told the family, but about your son, your uncle, your brother, your father. Paty leaves behind a five-year-old little son."
Samuel Paty was beheaded in broad daylight in a suburb of Paris by an 18-year-old suspected Islamist for showing his students caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad in class.
According to prosecutors, the attacker turned to students and offered them money to identify Paty when he was on his way home.
As early as Tuesday, crowds gathered for a silent march in the suburb of Paris where Paty was murdered.
Britta Sandberg, Der SPIEGEL:
"The attack on the teacher has been shaking the French for days. It touches the foundations of the republic. It even hits them right in the heart. Because the school is a special institution in France. In secular France, they entrust the education of children - not the church. "
"Terrorism has thus arrived in the middle of everyday life for the French. After the attacks in 2015 on the editors of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, on the Parisian café terraces and the Bataclan concert hall, the focus is now on schools. Where parents have their children until now President Macron said yesterday that the time for announcements was over, now action would follow. We will continue, we will not give up, and we will defend freedom, he promised today in front of the dead man's coffin. "
