French court convicts eight people of involvement in 2020 beheading of teacher

French court convicts eight people of involvement in 2020 beheading of teacher
People hold a photo of history teacher Samuel Paty during a memorial march in homage to him in Paris in 2020 (Lewis Joly/AP)

France’s anti-terrorism court on Friday convicted eight people of involvement in the beheading of teacher Samuel Paty outside his school near Paris four years ago.

Mr Paty, 47, was killed by an Islamic extremist outside his school on October 16 2020, days after showing his class cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed during a debate on free expression.

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