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  • thousands of people have taken part in rallies across Franz to express outrage of the beheading of a teacher in a suspected Islamist attack.

  • Samuel Patty was killed near Paris on Friday after showing pupils cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.

  • During a lesson on freedom of speech, Paris correspondent Lucy Williamson reports once again around the figure of Marianne, a sea of defiance, This statue, this square.

  • Ah, homing point For a nation whose values have come under attack since his death on Friday, Samuel Patty, like others before him, has become a symbol of France itself.

  • It's important to be here today for this to show our collective strength because that's what can help us follow principles during tough times.

  • We're here to defend the values of the Republic.

  • Liberty, equality, fraternity on secularism.

  • The government is to inactive.

  • Something must be done.

  • The prime minister, Jean Cast X, arrived in plastered a republic in a mask printed with the French flag.

  • His message on Twitter today read, You won't scare us with France.

  • The newest slogan on posters here I am, Samuel or simply I am a teacher.

  • An echo of the rallying cry sparked by the attacks on Charlie Hebdo five years ago.

  • This samba rally is a show of unity in the wake of Samuel Patties death.

  • But it's also proof of the power of social media to deliver a message and bring people together the same power that enabled a one man campaign against a local teacher to spiral out of control.

  • Samuel Patty was killed by a man who knew him only through social media, the result of an online campaign launched by an outraged parent that spread quickly outside Khan floor across France.

  • Tens of thousands of people have joined the rallies in his name, a man who stood for the values of the nation remembered today by a nation standing with him.

  • Lucy Williamson, BBC News Paris.

thousands of people have taken part in rallies across Franz to express outrage of the beheading of a teacher in a suspected Islamist attack.

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