Samuel Paty

2020 murder in Paris, France

On 16 October 2020, Samuel Paty (French pronunciation: [samɥɛl pati]), a French secondary school teacher, was attacked and killed in Éragny-sur-Oise, Île-de-France, France, by an Islamist terrorist. The perpetrator, Abdoullakh Abouyezidovich Anzorov, an 18-year-old Chechen Muslim refugee, killed and beheaded Paty with a cleaver, and was shot and killed by police minutes later. A social media campaign against Paty was linked to his subsequent murder. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Samuel_Paty

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