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Against terror, mobilization.

This Sunday major demonstrations will be held in France in tribute to Professor Samuel Paty, who was murdered on Friday for having shown his students some cartoons of Muhammad, an attack for which ten people were arrested.

The heads of the main political parties, associations and unions will demonstrate this Sunday from 3:00 p.m. in Paris and in other cities such as Lyon, Toulouse, Strasbourg, Nantes, Marseille, Lille and Bordeaux.

The

satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo

also joined the call for the demonstration in the capital, which will take place in the Republic Square, the traditional place of the protests.

This central square was the epicenter of the huge march on January 11, 2015, following the attacks against Charlie Hebdo and in a kosher supermarket, in which 1.5 million people participated.

On Friday, Samuel Paty was beheaded near the secondary school where he taught History and Geography, in a quiet neighborhood of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, 30 kilometers northwest of Paris.

The attacker, an 18-year-old man, was killed by the police.

This new Islamist attack caused great commotion in the country.

On Saturday, hundreds of people gathered in Nice (southeast) and Rennes (west)

to denounce an "act of barbarism" and defend "the values ​​of democracy

.

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The Association of Mayors of France (AMF, for its acronym in French) on Saturday urged all municipalities to pay tribute to the victim, proposing to hang a poster in all buildings with the slogan

"#JeSuisEnseignant" ("I am a teacher")

and respecting a minute of silence in the next municipal plenary session, in addition to raising the flag of the mayor's office at half mast for a day.

On Wednesday a national tribute will be held in coordination with the family of the murdered professor, announced the Elysee, without specifying the place.

This Sunday there will be a Defense Council chaired by the Head of State,

Emmanuel Macron

.

"Other expressions [of support] and announcements were foreseen after the meetings," the Executive announced.

"New strategy"

Prime Minister Jean Castex said the government is developing "a stronger, faster and more effective response strategy when a teacher is threatened."

"The State will live up to the commitment [of the teachers] and will respond with the utmost firmness to all the enemies of the Republic," Castex told the Journal du Dimanche newspaper.

The Republicans party

proposed that the murdered professor be buried in the Pantheon

, necropolis of the great French personalities, in what would be a "strong symbolic act".

In Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, where the attack took place, elected politicians and anonymous citizens of all ages gathered on Saturday afternoon in front of the Bois d'Aulne secondary school, where Paty worked, in an emotional act.

Many of them carried banners that read "I am a teacher" or "I am a teacher."

"There will be a before and after as a teacher since October 16: for the first time, a teacher is attacked for what he teaches," said Lionel, a geography and history teacher from the neighboring town of Herblay.

The students also seemed very affected, like Marie, who went to her old school to lay some flowers in "homage to her former teacher."

"I remember his class on freedom of expression. We talked about Charlie, we made some drawings that are still hanging in the center,"

explained the young woman, excited.

Killed for "revenge"

The attacker, killed by the police after the attack, was identified as

Abdoullakh A.

, an 18-year-old Russian Chechen, born in Moscow and a refugee in France with his family, the national anti-terrorist prosecutor, Jean-François Ricard, told the press.

He had no criminal record, although he did have a misdemeanor.

On his phone, the investigators found a message addressed to Emmanuel Macron, "the leader of the infidels", in which he explained that he wanted revenge on the person who "dared to belittle Muhammad", and a photo of his beheaded victim.

Some content that had also been published on Twitter.

In talking about him, his neighbors described a "discreet" young man, "steeped in religion" for three years.

His parents, grandfather and younger brother, among others, were arrested in Evreux (northwest) on Friday night.

This Sunday, the police arrested one more person, bringing the number of those arrested in the case to eleven, police sources indicated.

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