Eight people have gone on trial in Paris on terrorism charges in connection with the beheading of Samuel Paty, a history teacher, who showed pupils caricatures of the prophet Muhammad after their publication in Charlie Hebdo.
In an attack that horrified France in 2020, an 18-year-old Chechen refugee killed Paty, 47, near a secondary school in the Paris suburb of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine.
Abdoullakh Anzorov, the killer who was shot dead by police, had arrived in France aged six with his parents. His attack came after the teacher was vilified on social media over his use of the cartoons from the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in an ethics class. After the paper published the caricatures in 2015, Islamist terrorists killed 12 people in an attack on its