(BBC) Eight people accused of abetting the jihadist murder of French teacher Samuel Paty are to learn their fate after a six-week trial in a Paris court.
They include the father of a schoolgirl whose lie about Paty’s alleged discrimination against Muslims in the classroom set in motion the chain of events which led to his beheading on a street in October 2020.
Also on trial are a Muslim activist who led an online campaign against Paty, two boyhood friends of Chechen-born killer Abdoullakh Anzorov who allegedly helped him acquire weapons, and four radicalised [people] with whom he exchanged messages on social media.
Anzorov was shot dead by police minutes after killing the 47-year-old history-geography teacher outside his secondary school in the Paris suburb of Conflans-Saint-Honorine.
