Students helped killer find teacher who was beheaded, says French prosecutor

A terror investigation is under way into the killing of Samuel Paty by an 18-year-old Moscow-born Chechen refugee (Lewis Joly/AP)

The 18-year-old suspected killer of a French teacher who showed caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad in class paid students to help him identify the victim, France’s terrorism prosecutor has said.

Prosecutor Jean-Francois Ricard said a 14-year-old and a 15-year-old are among seven people who appeared before an investigating magistrate on accusations of complicity in murder in relation with a terrorist undertaking, and criminal conspiracy.