6 Teenagers Go on Trial for Their Alleged Role in 2020 Beheading of French Teacher

6 Teenagers Go on Trial for Their Alleged Role in 2020 Beheading of French Teacher
Flowers next to a placard reading "I am a teacher" in tribute to Samuel Paty, it pictured near the Bois d'Aulne school in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, outside Paris on Oct. 16, 2023. Bertrand Guay, Pool via AP
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PARIS—Six teenagers go on trial Monday in Paris for their alleged roles in the beheading of a teacher who showed caricatures of the prophet of Islam to his class.

Samuel Paty, a history and geography teacher, was killed on Oct. 16, 2020, near his school in a northwest Paris suburb by an 18-year-old of Chechen origin who had become radicalized. The attacker was in turn shot dead by police.