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 ...

PARIS–Eight people were convicted of helping the man who beheaded French schoolteacher Samuel Paty four years ago after he showed caricatures of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad in class as part of a ...

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 ...

Mr. Paty was slain in October 2020 near his school northwest of Paris by Abdoullakh Anzorov, an 18-year-old Russian of Chechen descent who was angered by the teacher’s display of caricatures of ...

An online campaign against Paty snowballed, and 11 days after the lesson, Anzorov attacked the teacher with a knife as he walked home, and displayed the teacher's head in a post on social media.

They include friends of assailant Abdoullakh Anzorov who allegedly helped purchase weapons for the attack and the father of a schoolgirl whose lies started the fatal spiral of events. The national ...

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 ...

They include friends of assailant Abdoullakh Anzorov who allegedly helped purchase weapons for the attack and the father of a schoolgirl whose lies started the fatal spiral of events. The national ...

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.

An online campaign against Paty snowballed, and 11 days after the lesson, Anzorov attacked the teacher with a knife as he walked home, and displayed the teacher’s head in a post on social media.