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Marie DHUMIERES and Murielle KASPRZAK

French Court Convicts Six Teens For Role In Beheading Of Teacher

Samuel Paty, a 47-year-old history and geography teacher, was stabbed and then beheaded near his secondary school outside Paris (Credit: AFP)

A French court on Friday convicted six teenagers for their role in the 2020 beheading of a teacher by a radicalised Islamist near Paris, in a case that horrified the country.

The prison sentences range from 14 months to two years, but all are suspended or commuted and no defendant will serve jail time, according to a youth court judgement read at a public hearing after behind-closed-door proceedings.

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