Beheaded teacher to get France's highest honour "Legion d’Honneur"

Samuel Paty, the 47-year old history teacher, beheaded by a speculated Islamist last week, will posthumously get France’s highest honour, the “Legion d’Honneur”.The declaration is made by the education minister Jean-Michel Blanquer on BFM TV.

Paty was brutally killed on Friday in full daylight outside his school in a middle-class Paris neighbourhood by an 18-year-old boy of Chechen origin. The attacker was shot dead by the Police.

The history teacher had shown sketches of Prophet Mohammad in a class on freedom of expression which is why the teenager took this step to seek revenge as any depiction of the Prophet is considered to be blasphemous by the Muslims.

The crime outraged entire France, and brought reverberations of the attack five years ago on the offices of sarcastic publication Charlie Hebdo. Public figures described the assassination of a crime and attack on the Republic and on French teachings.

A national celebration in celebration of Paty will be held at Paris’ Sorbonne university on Wednesday.