Six teenagers go on trial behind closed doors on Monday, accused of involvement in the beheading of French history teacher Samuel Paty by a suspected Islamist in 2020 in an attack that struck at the heart of the country's secular values.

PARIS, Nov 27 (Reuters) - Six teenagers go on trial behind closed doors on Monday, accused of involvement in the beheading of French history teacher Samuel Paty by a suspected Islamist in 2020 in an attack that struck at the heart of the country’s secular values.

The teacher had shown his pupils cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad in a class on freedom of expression, angering a number of Muslim parents. Muslims believe that any depiction of the Prophet is blasphemous.

  • money_loo@1337lemmy.comEnglish
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    11 months ago

    None of that happened and you’re starting to look a lil racist, bruh.

    On 16 October 2020, a week and a half after Paty’s freedom-of-speech class, Anzorov was driven to Paty’s school by an alleged accomplice and waited outside the gates of the school. He asked a number of students to point out the teacher.[58][23] He paid two students, aged 14 and 15, around €300 to identify Paty; the two then waited with Anzorov for two hours until they sighted Paty leaving.[59] A Friday, it was the last schoolday before a two-week holiday.[60] Anzorov had told them he intended to “hit” and “humiliate” Paty, according to Jean-François Ricard, in order to “make him apologise for the cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad”.[59]

    He paid two students he’d never met before money for the information after telling them he was just going to hit him and shame him a bit.

    C’mon bruh, you can do better than this.