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Gavin Blackburn

Appeal trial for men convicted of 2020 beheading of teacher Samuel Paty opens in France

An appeal trial opened in Paris on Monday for four men convicted over the 2020 beheading of teacher Samuel Paty, a killing that horrified France.

Paty, 47, was murdered in October 2020 by an 18-year-old Islamist radical of Chechen origin after showing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in class.

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