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Teacher beheaded outside Paris school in suspected terrorist attack
French authorities have said that a teenager asked pupils to identify the teacher. Before beheading him outside the school that he worked at in Paris.
Teacher beheaded outside Paris school: They have said that they suspect it is an Islamist terrorist attack. Jean-Francois Ricard, anti-terrorism prosecutor, said that the 18-year-old who attacked Samuel Paty, 47, and has remained unnamed, asked around outside the school for pupils to identify Mr Paty before murdering him. The young attacker is said to be of Chechen origin and was born in Russia.
Armed police were called and killed the attacker minutes later in the Paris suburb of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine on Friday. A mobile phone found near his body contained a photo of the murdered teacher. Also a message ready to post on Twitter claiming responsibility for his actions. The horrific incident appears to have come about after Mr Paty showed his pupils a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammed during a lesson on freedom of expression. Which angered Muslim parents as they believe any depiction of the Prophet is blasphemous.
During the days that followed the lesson the pupil’s father recorded videos branding the history teacher a thug. And ranted that he should be sacked from his job. In one particular video, all of which were posted to social media, he asked people to “rise up” and say “stop, don’t touch our children”.
Later, Police detained 9 relatives of the attacker and people close to him. Including the father of one of Paty’s pupils and an acquaintance of the killer’s father who was known to intelligence services. Muslim leaders were quick to condemn Friday’s killing. And said that it would not help France’s Muslim community.
Following the attack, Emmanuel Macron, French President, said that. “the Islamist terrorist attack was targeting freedom of expression. And the whole country stands behind its teachers. Terrorists will not divide France, obscurantism will not win.” The killing has shocked the country and pupils have laid flower tributes at the school gates.
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MPs to vote on free meals for Birmingham kids
MPs are set to vote tomorrow on free meals for children in Birmingham
MPs will vote tomorrow on proposals to give 61,000 Birmingham children free meals during school holidays.
Labour is proposing that a free meal scheme introduced during the national lockdown earlier this year is extended until at least Easter, which would mean it covers half term and the Christmas break.
The measure was originally introduced to help families while schools were closed. Families with children eligible for free school meals, including 61,000 in Birmingham and 191,280 in the West Midlands region, were provided with vouchers to pay for food.
Parents received vouchers worth £15 per child per week, which they can spend in supermarkets.
The scheme was originally due to end when the summer holidays began in mid-July, but has already been extended once following a campaign by Manchester United footballer Marcus Rashford and protests from some Conservative MPs as well as Labour.
he Government has so far resisted pressure to continue the scheme, arguing that free school meals have always been provided during term time and are not meant to provide food during holidays.
A Government Minister said parents on low incomes have received an increase in Universal Credit payments.
Nadhim Zahawi told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “We’ve put over £9 billion into Universal Credit to help exactly those families that need that help and we continue with the policy of holiday clubs.”
The Business Minister said research from a pilot scheme “demonstrates that families didn’t just want the meals, although they valued the meals, they didn’t like the labelling of them being free, they actually prefer to pay a modest amount, £1 or £2, but they valued the additional focus on exercise and on reading fun books and so on through the holiday”.
“Free school meals for children in holiday periods was born out of the Covid crisis but must now continue. There is a moral crisis to ensure no child wakes up or goes to bed hungry.”
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Convict takes out and kills two child sex offenders and says he was doing everyone a favor
California convict confesses to killing two pedophiles, claiming he did ‘everyone a favor.’
Jonathan Watson is serving a life sentence for murder and has no regrets about killing two more.
In a letter, Watson publicly confessed to beating two convicted child molesters to death at a California prison.
According to Watson, one of the inmates, David Bobb, ‘taunted’ him by watching children’s programming in a shared prisoner space.
That when he attacked him, clubbing him in the head with a walking cane. He then went further and attacked Graham De Luis-Conti, also a convicted child molester.
Bobb died shortly after en route to the hospital, while inmate Graham passed away three days later.
Both victims were serving life sentences for aggravated sexual assault of a child under 14 years old.
Before the attack, Watson said the prison changed his security classification, transferring him from a single-person cell to a lower-security dormitory pod.
Watson called the switch a ‘careless’ mistake and said he left ‘quite a paper trail’ protesting it.
Six days later, a child molester moved into the pod. Watson said the man then began taunting other inmates by watching children’s television programming.
He wrote: “I could not sleep having not done what every instinct told me I should’ve done right then and there.
So I packed all of my things because I knew one way or another the situation would be resolved the following day.”
On the next day—two hours before the attacks—Watson went to a prison counselor and asked for an “urgent” transfer to a more secure facility. He claimed that he feared he might turn violent.
However, the counselor ‘scoffed and dismissed’ him. So he went back to the pod.
Then, Watson saw one of the child molester tune to PBS Kids on the television again.
Watson said in the letter:
“This time, someone else said something to the effect of, ‘Is this guy really going to watch this right in front of us?’
And I recall saying, ‘I got this.’ And I picked up the cane and went to work on him.”
Watson said he then left the housing pod to find a guard and turn himself in.
But while on the way, he spotted a ‘child trafficker’ in a neighboring cell.
Watson wrote:
“I figured I’d just do everybody a favor. In for a penny, in for a pound.”
Watson said he then told the guards. But they didn’t believe him at first until they saw the mess he had left in the dorm area.
Watson later wrote another letter, after local news asked for an interview.
In the letter, he said that he and many other inmates have sympathy for the victims of child molesters. That’s why he believes pedophiles face so much violence from other inmates while behind bars.
He wrote:
“These families spend years carefully and articulately planning how to give their children every opportunity that they never had.
And one monster comes along and changes that child’s trajectory forever.”
Watson continued:
“Being a lifer, I’m in a unique position where I sometimes have access to these people. I have so little to lose -And trust me, we get it. These people are every parents’ worst nightmare.”
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Cross Border Cooperation measures announced between Spain & Portugal
Spain and Portugal announced a series of measures on Saturday to strengthen cross-border cooperation, including better access to health and social services for citizens living along their shared 750-mile border.
Following an annual summit in Guarda, Portugal, the prime ministers of both countries said a new identity card would allow people working on the other side of the border to access health services there.
The measures are aimed at helping 1.6 million Portuguese and 3.4 Spanish inhabitants along the border, which comprises some of the poorest districts in both countries.
Other measures expected include bilingual schools and a joint centre for combating fires. A full package will be announced by the end of the day on Saturday.
The border has remained open to workers and transport of goods between mid-March to July 1, despite the coronarivus pandemic. But it was closed to tourists, hurting local businesses reliant on tourism. [L8N2E826K]
“But we’ve always been a disadvantaged zone – both the Portuguese side, and the Spanish,” he told Portuguese broadcaster RTP.
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