PARIS: Rallies in dozens of cities across France were expected on Sunday in a show of solidarity and defiance following theThe beheading of history teacher Samuel Paty in a Paris suburb Friday has sparked outrage in France and memories of a wave of violence in 2015 sparked by caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed published by the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.
Witnesses said he was spotted at the school on Friday afternoon asking pupils where he could find Paty. Friday's attack was the second such incident since a trial started last month into the January 2015 massacre at the offices of the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine, which had published caricatures of the prophet that unleashed a wave of anger across the Islamic world.