2023-11-27 04:01:42
Three years following the murder of teacher Samuel Paty in France, the trial of six students who are said to have had something to do with the bloody crime begins on Monday in a juvenile court in Paris. On October 16, 2020, the 47-year-old history teacher Paty was killed by an attacker in a Paris suburb and then beheaded. The crime was classified as an Islamist-motivated act of terrorism and sparked international outrage.
The police shot and killed the 18-year-old perpetrator with Russian-Chechen roots. Before the crime, the teacher had been agitated once morest the teacher on the Internet because he had shown caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed in class on the subject of freedom of expression.
Five students who were 14 and 15 years old at the time of the crime are accused of forming a criminal organization and a then 13-year-old student is accused of making a false accusation that is said to have triggered the crime. All defendants face up to two and a half years in prison. The trial lasts until December 8th. The court hears the proceedings behind closed doors.
The trial once morest eight adults, some of whom are said to have directly supported the attacker in preparing his crime, will only be completed in a year. Among them are two friends of the perpetrator who, according to the prosecution, were privy to his plans. Both are said to have accompanied him when he bought weapons and one is also said to have driven him to the crime scene. Also charged is the father of the student who is said to have circulated the allegations once morest Paty, as well as a man who is said to have posted videos of them on social networks.
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