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The murder of Samuel Paty (French pronunciation: ​[samɥɛl pati]), a French middle-school teacher, took place on 16 October 2020 in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, a suburb of Paris. Paty was killed and beheaded by an Islamic terrorist. The perpetrator, Abdoullakh Abouyedovich Anzorov, an 18-year-old Muslim Russian refugee of Chechen ethnicity, killed and beheaded Paty with a cleaver. Anzorov was shot and killed by police minutes later. Paty had, in a class on freedom of expression, shown his students Charlie Hebdo's 2012 cartoons depicting the Islamic prophet Muhammad. One of the cartoons portrays Muhammad naked with his genitals exposed. These cartoons were seen by many Muslims as offensive. A social media campaign against Paty was linked to his subsequent murder. Ten people have been charged with assisting the killer, including an imam, a parent of a student, and two students at Paty's school.French president Emmanuel Macron said that the incident was "a typical Islamist terrorist attack", and that "our compatriot was killed for teaching children freedom of speech". The murder was one of several attacks in France in recent years, and it created debate in French society and politics. The murder was the second terrorist attack in France during the 2020 trial at which alleged accomplices to the Charlie Hebdo shooting and the January 2015 Île-de-France attacks are arraigned for terrorism targeting the cartoons' publishers. Several Muslim-majority countries, including Turkey, Iran, Jordan and Kuwait and leaders as well as the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation denounced the attack and condemned the publication of the cartoons. The response of the French government has been criticized by many Muslims, including Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, some of who have called for a boycott of French goods.