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.

By Ségolène Le Stradic Reporting from Paris Eight people went on trial in Paris on Monday in connection with the murder of Samuel Paty, a history teacher whose beheading by an Islamist terrorist in 2020 shocked France and put the nation on edge.

Eight people went on trial in France on Monday, charged with contributing to the climate of hatred that led to an 18-year-old Islamist radical of Chechen origin beheading teacher Samuel Paty near Paris in 2020.