(Radio France) The student who accused history teacher Samuel Paty of Islamophobia, which began a hate campaign that [led] to his brutal public beheading in October, has admitted to making up her story.
The 13-year-old did not attend class on the day that Samuel Paty allegedly asked Muslim students to leave the room in order to show caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed from satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo.
Identified as “Z,” the girl admitted to investigators that she was not in class on 6 October during the lesson on freedom of expression.
She had initially said that Paty had asked her and other Muslim students to leave the classroom before he showed the images. She claimed that she was suspended for two days because she accused him of Islamophobia.
