(Radio France) As six teenagers go on trial for allegedly helping to incite the murder of French schoolteacher Samuel Paty, who was beheaded near Paris three years ago, 13 of his colleagues are watching the case from the courtroom. They told RFI why it was important for them to try to understand what their former pupils had done.
“We’re ready to face this moment now because we’ve been waiting for it,” one of the group, who didn’t want to use her name, told RFI’s Victor Cariou outside the Paris juvenile court.
“It’s an important moment for us. We need to get through this stage in order to move forward in our lives.”
Reliable information has been hard to come by in the three years since Paty was stabbed and beheaded near the Bois d’Aulne secondary school in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, his former coworker said.
