The trial began Monday for six teenagers in Paris who were allegedly involved in the beheading of a teacher in 2020 who showed caricatures of Muhammad, the prophet of Islam, to his class.
47-year-old Samuel Paty was a history and geography teacher. He was hosting an ethics debate on free speech laws in France when he displayed the images that had been published by Charlie Hebdo, a satirical newspaper.
Ten days later, Paty was targeted and slaughtered near his school by 18-year-old Chechen migrant Abdoullakh Anzorov who had become radicalized, according to Breitbart. Anzorov stabbed Paty and proceeded to decapitate him. He was shot dead by police when they arrived at the scene.
One of the defendants in the case is a teenage girl who is accused of making false allegations. Prior to the attack, the then 13-year-old stated Paty had asked Muslim students to raise their hands and exit the classroom before showing the images to the class. She, along with her father Brahim Chnina, repeated these claims to police and on social media, accusing Paty of “dissemination of…
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