Seven People Handed Over to Judge in Probe on French Teacher’s Murder

People look at flowers laid in homage to slain history teacher Samuel Paty, outside the Bois d'Aulne secondary school, in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, northwest of Paris, on Oct. 19, 2020. Anne-Christine Poujoulat/AFP via Getty Images

PARIS—Seven people, including two minors, were handed over to a judge overnight as part of an ongoing investigation into last week’s murder of French teacher Samuel Paty, an official from the anti-terrorist prosecutor’s office said.

Paty was beheaded on Oct. 16 in broad daylight outside his school in a middle-class Paris suburb by an 18-year-old of Chechen origin. Police shot the attacker dead.