Shortly after the most recent, gruesome terror attack in France, security expert Eric Delbecque said, “Freedom of expression should not live under house arrest.” A history teacher, Samuel Paty, had been stabbed and beheaded near his school for showing his middle school students caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad during a class focusing on freedom of expression.
The 47-year-old father of one is the latest martyr for freedom of expression. The killer, Abdoullakh Aboyezidvitch Anzorov, died on the scene after firing an air gun at police and being shot in return. He was an 18-year-old Islamist of Chechen origin whose family’s request for asylum had been rejected by the French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons due to concerns about the accuracy of the father’s story, but the request was later approved by the National Court of Asylum.
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