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On a day of nationwide tributes to murdered French teacher Samuel Paty, who was killed for showing his class cartoons of the Muslim Prophet Mohammed, the Minister of Education Jean-Michel Blanquer attends a performance by a choir in a Parisian high school. IMAGES
France's Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin, the Minister for Citizenship Marlène Schiappa, the police and elected representatives pay tribute to Stéphanie Monfermé, an administrative officer murdered by a 36-year-old Tunisian who had been radicalised. IMAGES
The coffin of French history teacher Samuel Paty, who was beheaded for showing cartoons of the Prophet Mohamed in a lesson on free speech, arrives at a high-level ceremony attended by President Emmanuel Macron at the Sorbonne university in Paris. IMAGES
Hundreds gather in the French town of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine to pay tribute to Samuel Paty, a history teacher who was beheaded over showing his pupils a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed. IMAGES
"We ask for your forgiveness," says Hassen Chalghoumi, the imam of the Paris suburb of Drancy, as he pays tribute in front of the school of the beheaded history and geography teacher in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine.
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