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Family of beheaded French teacher Samuel Paty complain of state failures

A poster reading "I am Samuel" and flowers lay outside the school where slain history teacher Samuel Paty was working in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, northwest of Paris. AP - Michel Euler

A year and a half after the murder of school teacher Samuel Paty by a radicalised student, members of his family have lodged a legal complaint against several ministries and institutions who they consider to be at fault for failing to protect the professor.

Paty was stabbed and decapitated near a school where he taught history in the suburb of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, north-west of Paris, on 16 October, 2020.

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