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Alain JEAN-ROBERT

French Court To Issue Verdict In Teacher Beheading Trial

French schoolteacher Samuel Paty became a free-speech hero following his beheading in 2020 by an 18-year-old Islamist radical of Chechen origin (Credit: AFP)

A French court on Friday was expected to deliver a verdict against eight people charged in connection with the jihadist beheading of schoolteacher Samuel Paty in 2020, a murder that horrified France.

Paty, 47, was beheaded 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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