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An 18-year-old Moscow-born man of Chechen origin has been identified as the suspect in Friday's beheading of a schoolteacher in a suburb of Paris, a French judicial source told CNN Saturday.
The victim was Samuel Paty, a history and geography teacher at a secondary school in the Conflans-Sainte-Honorine area, according to the French Education Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer. Blanquer said Saturday that Paty was murdered "for teaching a class that had to do with one of the pillars of democracy -- freedom of expression."
Multiple French media outlets, including CNN affiliate BFMTV, reported that the teacher recently showed controversial caricatures depicting the Prophet Mohammed to his students as part of a lesson on freedom of speech. According to the French newspaper Le Monde, some Muslim parents complained to the school about the teacher's decision to use one or more of the cartoons as part of a discussion about the Charlie Hebdo attacks.