Samuel Paty murder: Defendants face verdict over actions that led to beheading

Eight people accused of abetting the jihadist murder of Samuel Paty will learn their fate in a Paris court.

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They include the father of a schoolgirl whose lie about Paty's alleged discrimination against Muslims in the classroom set in motion the chain of events which led to his beheading on a street in October 2020.

Also on trial are a Muslim activist who led an online campaign against Paty, two boyhood friends of Chechen-born killer Abdoullakh Anzorov who allegedly helped him acquire weapons, and four radicalised men with whom he exchanged messages on social media.

Anzorov was shot dead by police minutes after killing the 47 year-old history-geography teacher outside his secondary school in the Paris suburb of Conflans-Saint-Honorine.

He was fired up by claims circulating on the internet that a few days earlier Paty had ordered Muslims to leave his class of 13-year-olds before revealing obscene pictures of the prophet Muhammad.

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