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October 26, 2022

Two Years after Samuel Paty’s Death, Islamist Violence Remains a Real Threat to France

A schoolteacher was forced into police protection after anti-Semitic abuse and intimidation.

On October 16, 2020, Samuel Paty, a teacher at a French high school, was beheaded by a young Muslim man after showing a picture of Mohammad to his class. Liam Duffy observes that, on the two-year anniversary of the murder, prominent French newspapers of the left, right, and center lamented the fact that little seems to have changed. As Duffy explains, they had a specific reason for their pessimism:

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