• A national tribute will be paid to Professor Samuel Paty, whose assassination on October 16 sparked a wave of emotion and indignation throughout the country, by Emmanuel Macron, Wednesday evening, at the University of the Sorbonne in Paris.

The Legion of Honor will be awarded to him posthumously in the presence of his family.

• Because he had shown caricatures of Muhammad to his students on October 5 and 6, as part of a moral and civic education course, devoted to freedom of expression, this history-geography teacher was beheaded by an 18-year-old Chechen Russian refugee, who was later shot dead by police.

• On the side of the investigation, seven people, including two minors, were referred, Wednesday, October 21, to be presented to an anti-terrorist judge, with a view to opening a judicial investigation and possible indictments, AFP learned from a judicial source and Reuters, from the National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor's Office.

• Among them is Brahim C., the student's parent who launched the mobilization against the teacher after two courses on freedom of expression given by Samuel Paty, on October 5 and 6, in his college in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine , in the Yvelines.

The sulphurous Islamist activist Abdelhakim Sefrioui, who had accompanied this parent of a student in his mobilization, will also be presented to a judge on Wednesday.

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