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Angelique Chrisafis in Paris

Samuel Paty: six teenagers to go on trial in connection with French teacher’s beheading

A poster is held up showing a picture of Samuel Paty.
The 47-year-old teacher was stabbed and then decapitated near his secondary school in the Paris suburb of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine. Photograph: François Lo Presti/AFP/Getty Images

Six teenagers will go on trial in Paris on Monday in connection with events leading to the beheading of Samuel Paty in 2020, in a case that horrified France.

The 47-year-old history teacher was stabbed and then decapitated near his secondary school in the Paris suburb of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, by Abdoullakh Anzorov, a radicalised 18-year-old who arrived in France aged six with his Chechen parents and had been granted asylum.

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