Eight sentenced in France for beheading teacher
A French court has sentenced eight people to prison for their role in a hate campaign that led to the murder of school teacher Samuel Paty in October 2020.
The sentences handed down ranged from three to 16 years.
The attack came after social media posts falsely claimed that Patty had shown her students indecent images of the Prophet Muhammad during a lesson on freedom of expression.
Abdulakh Anzorov murdered Samuel Paty, a history and geography teacher at a secondary school in the Paris suburb of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine.
Anzorov was shot dead by police minutes after the 47-year-old man was murdered.
He was angered by claims circulating on the Internet that days earlier Patty had ordered a classroom of 13-year-olds to leave before displaying images of the Prophet Muhammad to Muslims.
In fact, Patty was conducting a lesson on freedom of expression, and before showing one of the controversial images first published by Charlie Hebdo magazine, he advised pupils to avert their eyes if they feared being offended. And do it.
