Seven men and one woman go on trial Monday at the Special Assize Court of Paris, accused of orchestrating a campaign of hatred and intimidation that led to the 2020 murder of French teacher Samuel Paty.

Eight people went on trial in Paris yesterday on terrorism charges over the beheading of teacher Samuel Paty, who was killed by an Islamic extremist after showing caricatures of Islam’s prophet to his middle-school students for a lesson on freedom of expression.

Eight people who allegedly helped the perpetrator in the brutal murder of history teacher Samuel Paty are set to stand trial in a Paris court on Monday, four years after the incident. The crime, classified as an Islamist-motivated terrorist act,