France, Macron: "Professor Samuel Paty embodied freedom and the Republic"

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21 October 2020 France stopped to pay national homage to Samuel Paty, the professor beheaded last Friday in a terrorist attack that shocked the entire nation.

Killed by Abdullakh Anzorov, a young refugee of Russian Chechen origin who attacked the teacher in the middle of the street because he wanted to "humiliate and beat" Samuel Paty for showing the cartoons of the prophet Muhammad.

The ceremony took place in the courtyard of the Sorbonne, the historic seat of the French university and a symbol of freedom and emancipation, in an atmosphere full of emotion, with the symbolic words of France: Freedom, Equality, Brotherhood, to stand out on everything.

The speech of the French president, Emmanuel Macron, was very much felt.

The notes of "One" by U2 welcomed Samuel Paty's coffin at the Sorbonne.

The national homage wanted by President Macron began with the historic U2 song that resounded in the courtyard of the Sorbonne while Paty's coffin, carried on the shoulders by soldiers in full uniform, crossed the arcades of the historic university, in front of the president French, visibly moved.

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President Macron said this, speaking at the Sorbonne.

"We will continue to teach, we will bring secularism", assured the tenant of the Elysée.

, which is reborn every day in the classrooms, the freedom that is transmitted and perpetuated in the schools" and "Samuel Paty on Friday became the face of the French Republic". 

Emmanuel Macron then denounced "the

" who handed Samuel Paty "to the

".

"I will not speak of the terrorists, their accomplices and all the cowards who committed and made this attack possible. I will not speak of those who gave his name to the barbarians. They do not deserve it."

Pary was "one of those professors who never forget," Macron said.

The French president spoke for just under a quarter of an hour in the courtyard of the Sorbonne in the presence of about 400 guests, about a hundred of whom were students from institutes in the Ile de France, that is the Paris region.

The ceremony began around 19.30.

In the presence of Paty's family, Macron bestowed on him the

, then Paty's coffin was carried into the Sorbonne courtyard escorted by the Republican guard.

Before Macron took the floor, some teachers and a student read several texts.