French imam pays tribute to teacher slain in gruesome beheading
By Abiodun Ogundairo
24 October 2020 |
12:52 pm
"We ask for your forgiveness," says Hassen Chalghoumi, the imam of the Paris suburb of Drancy, as he pays tribute in front of the school of the beheaded history and geography teacher in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine.
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