French president Emmanuel Macron paid his respects at the coffin of History teacher Samuel Paty, who was beheaded for having shown cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in a civics class discussion on free speech at the junior high school where he taught in the suburb of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, near Paris. He was killed on his way home from work after school by Abdullakh Anzorov, who published an image of the teacher's severed head on Twitter before he was himself shot dead by police. The president said Paty was slain "because he incarnated the French Republic." Macron gave the country's highest civilian award, the Legion of Honour, to Samuel Paty.
Samuel Paty is a martyr of the secular French Republic. He died because he believed in his country and civilization. A civilization that is disappearing. His mistake will be repeated by many men and women from the West in the coming years. They will fight and maybe even die for a Civilization that is rotting and dying.
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