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Samuel Paty

Members of the public stand in front of a photograph depicting French history and geography teacher Samuel Paty as they attend a tribute ceremony in Paris, on October 16, 2021. (Alain Jocard/AFP)
December 21, 2024, 1:25 am
French court convicts 8 people of involvement in 2020 beheading of teacher
Two friends of dead attacker sentenced to 16 years in prison for complicity in murder; father of schoolgirl whose lies sparked killing sentenced to 13 years
By TOM NOUVIAN and Samuel Petrequin
File: A picture of Samuel Paty during the "Samuel Paty" award ceremony, organized by the Association of History and Geography Teachers (APHG), at the Sorbonne university in Paris on October 19, 2024. (Bertrand GUAY / AFP)
November 4, 2024, 7:50 am
Trial set to begin over beheading of French teacher who showed Muhammad cartoons
Eight facing judge on terror charges; main focus of trial is father of Muslim pupil and founder of pro-Hamas group who spread information against Samuel Paty
By NICOLAS VAUX-MONTAGNY
FILE - Residents watch jets from the Patrouille de France flying over Paris suburb Nanterre during the Bastille Day military parade on July 14, 2023 in Nanterre (AP Photo/Youcef Bounab, File)
September 5, 2023, 1:01 pm
French schools refuse entry to dozens of girls wearing Muslim dress, minister says
Month after ban was announced, nearly 300 girls showed up wearing an abaya; 67 sent home after they refused to change, says education minister
By AFP
A portrait of slain teacher Samuel Paty with a black ribbon is displayed Oct. 20, 2020 on the steps of the National Assembly in Paris. (AP Photo/Lewis Joly)
March 8, 2021, 4:55 pm
Schoolgirl admits to spreading false claims about beheaded French teacher
Teenager says she lied about being in class when Samuel Paty showed cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, and her father amplified the matter online, seemingly motivating Paty’s killer
By AFP
A French soldier stands guard in front of the Great Mosque in Strasbourg, eastern France, during the Friday prayer, November 20, 2015. Muslims gathered here to pay tribute to the victims of the November 13 attacks. (AFP Photo/Partrick Hertzog)
January 21, 2021, 6:15 pm
French Muslim groups reject Macron’s anti-extremism charter
Three organizations representing community say they won’t back text condemning the use of Islam for political ends and affirming equality between men and women
By AFP
Illustrative: Shiite Muslim women march toward the French Consulate during a rally against French President Emmanuel Macron and the republishing of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad they deem blasphemous, in Karachi, Pakistan, Nov. 1, 2020. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)
November 25, 2020, 8:02 pm
French court backs closure of Muslim group for ‘inciting hatred’
BarakaCity denies allegations; judge also upholds shuttering of mosque north of Paris over imam’s comments, as France cracks down on Islamic extremism
By AFP
French Prime Minister Jean Castex delivers a speech during a ceremony in Nice, on November 7, 2020, in homage to the three victims of an attack at Notre-Dame de Nice Basilica on October 29, 2020 (Valery HACHE / various sources / AFP)
November 7, 2020, 4:25 pm
After attacks, French PM says radical Islamism is the ‘enemy’
At Nice memorial for killing victims, Jean Castex says the ideology ‘distorts the Muslim religion by twisting its scriptures’
By AFP and ToI Staff
People gather with portraits of slain teacher Samuel Paty during a demonstration, on October 18, 2020, in Paris. (AP Photo/ Michel Euler)
November 7, 2020, 3:47 pm
3 teens charged in connection with French teacher’s beheading
Two 18-year-old men, 17-year-old girl indicted for criminal terrorist conspiracy after last month’s murder of Samuel Paty; 3 other teenagers charged for showing support for killing
By AFP
French soldiers secure the Notre-Dame de l'Assomption Basilica in Nice on October 30, 2020 during a tribute to the victims killed by a knife attacker the day before. (Valery Hache/AFP)
November 6, 2020, 1:56 pm
Aghast at recent attacks, French Muslims stand guard outside local cathedral
After a wave of Islamist terror strikes France, Muslim men gather to symbolically protect parishioners in the southern town of Lodeve, ahead of holiday weekend
By Angela Charlton
Schoolchildren observe a minute of silence for slain history teacher Samuel Paty, Monday Nov 2, 2020 in Strasbourg, eastern France. (AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias)
November 3, 2020, 3:56 pm
French schools reopen in mourning and tribute after beheading of teacher
Educational institutions hold minute of silence in memory of Samuel Paty; Macron increases protection of schools and churches, more than doubling number of soldiers deployed
By Lori Hinnant
A man walks inside a mosque in Paris, France, October 29, 2020. (AP/Thibault Camus, FILE)
November 1, 2020, 11:31 pm
Stigmatized by attacks, French Muslims feel they’re being held responsible
Latest acts of extremist violence have Macron forging ahead with effort to rid Islam of extremists, in campaign he labels ‘separatism,’ which makes Muslims wince
By Elaine Ganley
Iranians burn a picture of French President Emmanuel Macron and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a protest outside the French embassy in Tehran against comments by Macron defending cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, on October 28, 2020 (ATTA KENARE / AFP)
October 28, 2020, 9:09 pm
Insulting Muhammad may encourage ‘violence, bloodshed,’ Iran’s Rouhani warns
President makes comments after France’s Macron strongly defends secular values, right to mock religion, following beheading of teacher
By Agencies
Members of the French National police, patrol on the place du Capitole, in Toulouse southwestern France, on October 24, 2020. (Fred SCHEIBER / AFP)
October 27, 2020, 8:06 pm
France ups security amid rising Muslim anger over Muhammad cartoons
Police presence boosted at religious sites as interior minister says country faces a ‘very high’ risk of terrorist threats
By Angela Charlton
Men hold a sign bearing a picture of French President Emmanuel Macron with a Hitler mustache and a shoe print on it as Turkish protesters shout slogans during a demonstration against French President's comments over Prophet Muhammad cartoons, in Ankara, on October 27, 2020 (Adem ALTAN / AFP)
October 27, 2020, 6:10 pm
Tens of thousands march in Bangladesh as Muslim backlash against Macron widens
French leader depicted with Hitler mustache in Turkey as Muslims worldwide protest Paris’s defense of murdered teacher who showed drawing of Mohammed
By AFP and ToI Staff
A man holds a photograph of France's President Emmanuel Macron, stamped with a shoe mark, during a protest against France in Istanbul, October 25, 2020. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)
October 26, 2020, 8:06 pm
Mideast Muslims call for French goods boycott to protest caricatures
Demonstrations against Emmanuel Macron held across region from Israeli Arab town of Hura and the Gaza Strip to Pakistan and war-town Yemen
By Aya Batrawy
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