(BBC) The former headteacher of a French school has revealed the shocking sequence of events that led to the beheading of Samuel Paty by a Chechen refugee.
Audrey F told the court in Paris how she had tried to stop a row spiralling out of control that began with a 13-year-old student lying to her parents.
What began with Samuel Paty giving a lesson on freedom of expression in October 2020 escalated when the father of the girl, who had not even been in the class, turned up at the headteacher’s office with a local Islamist activist.
“I didn’t manage to protect him,” Audrey F said of her late colleague — a well-liked history and geography teacher in the Paris suburb of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine.
“It’s such an enormous waste.”
