It has been a year since the murder of a teacher who showed a caricature of an Islamic prophet to a student at a junior high school in France last year, and memorial services were held in various places such as Paris.
In this case, Samuel Paty, a male teacher who showed students a caricature of the Islamic prophet Muhammad when teaching freedom of expression at a junior high school near Paris last October, is a Chechen man from Russia. Was killed by.
On the 16th, one year after the incident, a memorial service was held near the scene, and fellow teachers and students handed flowers to the deceased one after another and surpassed Patty.
Prior to this, on the 15th, various events were held at schools nationwide at the behest of the French government, and at another junior high school near Paris, students said, "We are free. Don't be afraid to be our own. I want to express my feelings. "
In France, terrorism by Islamic extremists has been repeated six years ago (2015), including the attack on a newspaper company that posted caricatures of Islamic prophets.
There is ongoing debate in French society about how much freedom of expression has been traditionally valued and what the principle of separation of church and state should be.