Moving tribute to Samuel Paty, the beheaded teacher in France on Friday

Sylvie Claire / October 17, 2020

“A decapitated professor”. Since Friday evening, it has been astonishment in France where a teacher has been beheaded by an Islamist terrorist. But the man who was brutally killed has a name; his name was Samuel Paty, he was 47 years old. Friends and students pay tribute to him on social networks.

He wasn't just a teacher! His name was Samuel Paty, he was 47 years old, assassinated on French soil on October 16, 2020, because he taught, because he taught our children the freedom of expression, the freedom to believe and not to believe. Goodbye professor ”.

This is one of the many tributes paid to this teacher who was killed in a particularly gruesome way Friday night in Conflans Sainte-Honorine.

His name and his face are flooding social networks in France this Saturday morning.