9 December 2023
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2023-12-09 16:03
A French court on Friday convicted six teenagers for their role in the 2020 beheading of a teacher by a radicalized 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 court judgement. Samuel Paty, a 47-year-old history and geography teacher, was stabbed and then beheaded near his secondary school in the Paris on October 2020.