PARIS (Reuters) - A French mayor said on Friday he had received threats of having his head cut off - just one week after the decapitation of schoolteacher Samuel Paty shocked France.
"These threats must be taken seriously," Jeremie Breaud, the mayor of Bron near the major French city of Lyon, told BFM TV on Friday, adding that he had received offers of police protection.
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