Eight people have gone on trial in Paris accused of encouraging the killer of Samuel Paty, the teacher who was beheaded on the street outside his school four years ago. Abdoullakh Anzorov, the young man of Chechen origin who wielded the knife, is dead – shot by police in the minutes after his attack.

A month before Mr. Paty was killed, Charlie Hebdo had republished caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad. That led to new terrorist threats against France and a knife attack occurred that month near the satirical newspaper’s offices — making it clear to ...

The trial of eight people in Paris on terrorism charges started on Monday over the beheading of teacher Samuel Paty

STORY: The trial began in France on Monday (November 4) over the beheading of a teacher who showed his pupils caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad in a class on free speech.Eight people are accused of involvement in Samuel Paty's brutal murder outside his school near Paris in 2020.