French schools pay tribute to teacher beheaded by radical Islamist

Students of Rene Cassin high school observe a minute’s silence (Bob Edme/AP)

French schools have paid tribute to a teacher beheaded by a radical Islamist last year after he showed caricatures of the prophet of Islam to his class.

Samuel Paty, a history and geography teacher, was murdered on October 16 near his school in a north-west Paris suburb by an 18-year-old of Chechen origin who had become radicalised. The attacker was later shot dead by police.