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Latest Terror Attack in France Sparks Anger, Fear

Lisa Bryant

   PARIS - France saw countrywide rallies defending free speech and
   secularism Sunday, while the government discussed a stronger response
   to Islamist extremism following the brutal killing of a French
   schoolteacher last week.

   Masks firmly on, per the capital's coronavirus rules, tens of thousands
   assembled at the Place de la Republique in Paris and several other
   major cities following Friday's beheading of middle school history
   teacher Samuel Paty. Some waved French flags and brandished banners
   celebrating free expression, as speakers paid a somber tribute to the
   country's latest victim of terrorism.

   A national commemoration takes place Wednesday in honor of Paty, who
   died in the Paris suburb of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine.

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