Paty, 47, was beheaded in October 2020 by Abdoullakh Anzorov, an 18-year-old Islamist radical of Chechen origin, after showing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed during a class discussion on free ...

The attacker, an 18-year-old Russian national of Chechen origin identified by authorities as Abdoullakh Anzorov, was shot dead by police minutes after the attack.

Boudaoud was accused of driving attacker Abdoullakh Anzorov to the school while Epsirkhanov helped him procure weapons. Abdelhakim Sefrioui, a 65-year-old Muslim preacher, was given 15 years for ...

Samuel Paty was killed in October 2020 after an online hate campaign [Reuters] A French court has sentenced seven men and a woman to prison for their roles in a hate campaign that led to the ...

His killer, Abdoullakh Anzorov, died in a shootout with police. aje/jj/gv ...

Chechen-born radicalised Muslim Abdoullakh Anzorov murdered Samuel Paty, a history and geography teacher, at a secondary school in the Parisian suburb of Conflans-Saint-Honorine. Anzorov was shot ...

His killer, Abdoullakh Anzorov, died in a shootout with police. Two friends of Anzorov, Naim Boudaoud, 22, and Azim Epsirkhanov, 23, were on Friday convicted of complicity in the killing and ...

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 ...

Mr Paty became a free speech hero to the French authorities following his beheading in October 2020 by Abdoullakh Anzorov, an 18-year-old of Chechen origin who died in a shoot out with the police.