Samuel Paty: French headteacher describes spiral of events that led to beheading

Audrey F tells a court how a 13-year-old student's lie to her parents led to Samuel Paty's murder.

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Audrey F told the court in Paris how she had tried to stop a row spiralling out of control that began with a 13-year-old student lying to her parents.

What began with Samuel Paty giving a lesson on freedom of expression in October 2020 escalated when the father of the girl, who had not even been in the class, turned up at the headteacher's office with a local Islamist activist.

"I didn't manage to protect him," Audrey F said of her late colleague - a well-liked history and geography teacher in the Paris suburb of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine.

"It's such an enormous waste."

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