Eight on trial in France over murder of teacher who showed Prophet caricature


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  • Monday, 04 Nov 2024

Journalists work in front of the courtroom on the first day of the trial of eight people accused of involvement in the beheading of French history teacher Samuel Paty by a suspected Islamist in 2020 in an attack outside his school in the Paris suburb of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, at the Paris courthouse on the Ile de la Cite, in Paris, France, November 4, 2024. REUTERS/Sarah Meyssonnier

PARIS (Reuters) -The father of a French pupil whose account of the use of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad in a class on free speech led to the teacher's brutal murder went on trial on Monday, accused of association with a terrorist network.

Days after Samuel Paty, 47, showed his pupils the caricatures, in 2020, an 18-year-old assailant of Chechen origin stabbed him repeatedly and beheaded him outside his school in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine near Paris.

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