Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Samuel Paty

Six Students Go On Trial Over 2020 Murder Of French Schoolteacher

Six teenagers go on trial in Paris on Monday for their role in the 2020 beheading of teacher Samuel Paty, the first of two trials in a case that horrified France.

International Business Times

France bans 85 pupils from school for disrupting tributes to slain teachers

Disciplinary councils within France's Education Ministry have sanctioned 605 pupils following incidents that marred tributes last month to teachers Dominique Bernard and Samuel Paty. 85 students, permanently excluded from their schools, will have to find alternative establishments.

Radio France Internationale

French schools to pay tribute to teacher killed in knife attack

Schools in France will start late and hold a minute's silence on Monday following a suspected terrorist attack on a high school in which one teacher was killed and two other staff were injured. Thousands of people gathered in northern France on Sunday to pay tribute to the victim, French…

Radio France Internationale

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

France to deploy 7,000 soldiers after fatal stabbing of teacher

France on Saturday said it will deploy 7,000 soldiers after declaring a top-level alert following the fatal stabbing of a teacher by a suspect of Chechen origin, who also severely wounded three others at a school.

France 24

School stabbing in France’s Arras: What do we know about the suspect?

A man of Chechen origin who was under surveillance by French security services over suspected Islamic radicalization stabbed a teacher to death at his former high school and critically wounded three other people Friday in northern France, authorities said.

France 24

France raises alert to highest level after teacher’s fatal stabbing

France on Friday raised its security alert to the highest level after a man of Chechen origin stabbed a teacher to death and severely wounded two other adults at a school in the northern town of Arras in a knife attack that echoed the grisly slaying of a teacher in…

France 24

A teacher dies and 2 people are wounded in a stabbing in a French school. Terrorism is suspected

French police say a teacher has been killed and another teacher and a security guard injured in a stabbing in a school in northern France

The Independent UK

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

French court upholds ban on girls wearing abayas in schools

State council rejected complaints that ban was discriminatory and could incite hatred against Muslims

The Guardian - UK

Schools in France send dozens of Muslim girls home for wearing abayas

Schoolgirls who refused to change out of the robes have been sent home with a letter to parents on secularism.

Al Jazeera

French minister in hot seat over allegations her foundation embezzled public money

French minister Marlène Schiappa gave testimony on Wednesday in a Senate inquiry over allegations that a fund to fight religious extremism she managed funnelled public money to people close to her.

France 24

Raids in French probe on alleged misuse of murdered teacher's fund

French investigators have searched the homes of a journalist and a former senior official over allegations of embezzlement from a fund set up in memory of a teacher beheaded by an Islamist radical.

Radio France Internationale

Teens among 14 people to face trial over slaying of French teacher

French anti-terrorism magistrates have ordered 14 people, including six teenagers, to face trial over the brutal murder of high school teacher Samuel Paty in 2020.

Radio France Internationale

Extremist who praised French teacher’s killer jailed for five-and-a-half years

Ajmal Shahpal, 41, used Twitter to call for ‘blasphemers’ to be beheaded, after a string of terrorist attacks in Paris.

The Independent UK

French government reports rise in secular breaches in schools during Ramadan

France's education minister Pap Ndiaye said that there were "about 500 cases" of breaches of secularism in French schools this March – figures that were up on previous months – due to the observance of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

Radio France Internationale

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

Radio France Internationale

Six children among 14 to face trial over beheading of French teacher

French prosecutors have called for the trial of 14 people over the beheading of schoolteacher Samuel Paty by an Islamic extremist in 2020. Two adults face the charge of complicity in a terrorist murder. Six other adults and six minors under the age of 18 face lesser charges.

Nottingham Post

Nottingham Twitter user who praised French teacher’s killer found guilty of terror offences

Ajmal Shahpal was found guilty on Monday at Birmingham Crown Court

The Independent UK

Twitter user who praised French teacher’s killer found guilty of terror offences

Ajmal Shahpal was found guilty at Birmingham Crown Court after claiming his tweets were an attempt to gain more social media followers.

The Independent UK

Terror suspect used Twitter account to glorify terrorist beheadings, court told

Ajmal Shahpal, from Nottingham, is alleged to have encouraged others to commit, prepare or instigate acts of terrorism.

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

Evening Standard

French pupil, 16, ‘pulls knife out of bag’ and stabs Spanish teacher to death in class

A teacher was stabbed to death by a pupil in front of a packed class at a school in France.

France 24

Eight years after deadly attacks, Charlie Hebdo back in the headlines for angering Tehran

French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo made headlines again this week for mocking Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khomenei, angering the Iranian regime and prompting it to close a French research institute in Tehran. The latest controversy comes as France on Saturday marked the eighth anniversary of the attack on Charlie Hebdo’s…

Radio France Internationale

Samuel Paty honoured on the second anniversary of his brutal murder

As ceremonies continue on Monday commemorating the second anniversary of the death of secondary schoolteacher Samuel Paty, the French daily newspapers look back on a weekend of memorial events marked by sadness and dignity.

Radio France Internationale

'Growing number' of French schoolgirls flouting secularism rules

The Ministry of Education has recorded 313 violations of France's rules on secularism – which includes a ban on the wearing of ostentatious religious insignia in schools.

AFP

Russia's relentless hunt of Chechens decades after Putin's war

Vienna (AFP) - Twenty years after Vladimir Putin flattened their capital Grozny in the same way that his forces are now destroying Mariupol, Chechens refugees in Europe still live in fear of Russia's long arm.

Radio France Internationale

Family of beheaded French teacher Samuel Paty complain of state failures

A year and a half after the murder of school teacher Samuel Paty by a radicalised student, members of his family have lodged a legal complaint against several ministries and institutions who they consider to be at fault for failing to protect the professor.

1 2

People

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Ministry of Education

66 stories

Charlie Hebdo

58 stories

Birmingham Crown Court

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.