Murder of Samuel Paty

Samuel Paty was a middle-school teacher in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, France. On 16 October 2020 he was killed and beheaded by an Islamic terrorist. The perpetrator, Abdoullakh Abouyedovich Anzorov, was an 18-year-old Muslim Russian refugee of Chechen ethnicity. Paty had shown his students Charlie Hebdo’s 2012 cartoons depicting the Islamic prophet Muhammad.