French teen handed jail term over links to Samuel Paty killing

(Arab News) A Muslim teenager in France has been sentenced to three and a half years in prison over her association with and support for the killer of schoolteacher Samuel Paty.

Paty was stabbed to death in a Paris suburb after showing students images of the Prophet Muhammad.

The teenager, who was aged 17 at the time of the killing, repeated the demands of Paty’s killer, 18-year-old Abdoullakh Abouyedovich Anzorov, who was shot dead by police after the attack. A further six people are awaiting trial in connection to the 2020 murder.

Authorities discovered Daesh content on the girl’s phone and information about weaponry.

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