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Thousands of people rally in Paris and other French cities on October 18 in a show of solidarity and defiance after a teacher was beheaded for showing pupils cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.

History teacher Samuel Paty was beheaded on October 16 outside his school in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, in the northern Paris suburbs, by an 18-year-old man who was subsequently shot dead by police.

People gather on Republique square during a demonstration on October 18, 2020 in Paris. Demonstrations around France have been called in support of freedom of speech and to pay tribute to a French history teacher who was beheaded near Paris after discussing caricatures of Islam's Prophet Muhammad with his class.  
1 People gather on Republique square during a demonstration on October 18, 2020 in Paris. Demonstrations around France have been called in support of freedom of speech and to pay tribute to a French history teacher who was beheaded near Paris after discussing caricatures of Islam's Prophet Muhammad with his class.

 
People gather on Place de la Republique in Paris on October 18, 2020, in homage to history teacher Samuel Paty two days after he was beheaded by an attacker who was shot dead by policemen.  Thousands of people gathered in central Paris on October 18 to pay homage to the schoolteacher decapitated by an ethnic Chechen man for showing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed to his pupils. The demonstrators laid flowers at the Place de la République in central Paris and held aloft posters declaring: "No to totalitarianism of thought" and "I am a teacher" in memory of the victim, Samuel Paty.   
2 People gather on Place de la Republique in Paris on October 18, 2020, in homage to history teacher Samuel Paty two days after he was beheaded by an attacker who was shot dead by policemen. 

Thousands of people gathered in central Paris on October 18 to pay homage to the schoolteacher decapitated by an ethnic Chechen man for showing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed to his pupils. The demonstrators laid flowers at the Place de la République in central Paris and held aloft posters declaring: "No to totalitarianism of thought" and "I am a teacher" in memory of the victim, Samuel Paty. 

 
A woman lights a candle on Republique square during a demonstration on October 18, 2020 in Paris. 
3 A woman lights a candle on Republique square during a demonstration on October 18, 2020 in Paris. 
People gather at the Place de la Republique in Paris, to pay tribute to Samuel Paty, the French teacher who was beheaded on the streets of the Paris suburb of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, France, October 18, 2020. Placard reads "I am a teacher".
4 People gather at the Place de la Republique in Paris, to pay tribute to Samuel Paty, the French teacher who was beheaded on the streets of the Paris suburb of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, France, October 18, 2020. Placard reads "I am a teacher".

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