(National-UAE) Relatives of a French history teacher beheaded four years ago by a teenager were surprised by a confession of guilt in court from an associate of the killer.
A sister welcomed how one of the defendants, a former friend of the killer, said he had made the biggest mistake of his life.
“Admitting one’s responsibility, it’s like admitting that it [the killing] really happened,” Gaelle Paty told the court in Paris on Friday, standing in a large room that was especially built for terrorism trials after the capital was hit by a wave of ISIS-inspired attacks in 2015. “I felt myself loosen up.”
Her brother, Samuel Paty, 47, was found stabbed and beheaded outside his school near Paris in October 2020, weeks after a smear campaign following a class during which he showed caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed published by the magazine Charlie Hebdo.
