Verdicts expected for eight people on trial over beheading of teacher in France

A Republican Guard holds a portrait of Samuel Paty in the courtyard of the Sorbonne university during a national memorial event (Francois Mori/AP)

Eight people accused of assisting an Islamic extremist who beheaded a French history teacher are set to hear the verdicts in their cases more than four years after the death of Samuel Paty outside his school.

Mr Paty was killed near Paris on October 16, 2020, days after showing his class cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad during a debate on free expression.