Six teenagers go on trial Monday in Paris for their alleged roles in the beheading of a teacher who showed caricatures of the prophet of Islam to his class, the Associated Press reports. Samuel Paty, a history and geography teacher, was killed on Oct. 16, 2020, by a radicalized 18-year-old of Chechen origin. T
hose on trial include a teenage girl, who was 13 at the time, accused of making false allegations for wrongly saying that Paty had asked Muslim students to raise their hands and leave the classroom before he showed the cartoons, and Five other students of Paty’s school who are charged with criminal conspiracy with the aim of preparing aggravated violence to be committed. They are accused of having waited for Paty for several hours until he left the school and of having identified him to the killer in exchange for promises of money. Eight other adults are to be sent to trial later, including the father of the teenage girl.
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