Samuel Paty: Six French teens on trial for death of a teacher

Six young people are in court in Paris because they are accused of being involved in the killing of a teacher named Samuel Paty.

The kids are being accused of saying mean things and telling the person who hurt Mr. Paty, a refugee from Chechnya, where to find him at the school.

The kids were 13 to 15 years old when the killing happened in 2020, and the trial was kept private.

The news says that the people who are accused could go to prison for 2. 5They covered their faces when they went to court on Monday.

Mr Paty was killed on October 16, 2020 after he showed his students cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad during a lesson on freedom of speech.

The youngest person involved was 13 years old when the crime happened. She got in trouble at school nine days before Mr Paty was killed, but it wasn’t because of his murder.

She came to the court wearing a black jacket with the hood covering her head, as reported by AFP news agency.

She is accused of lying to her father about getting in trouble for talking to Mr. Paty about Muslim students leaving the class.

She was not in the class. Despite this, her father put up videos on social media asking for Mr Paty to be fired.

The lawyers think that these videos made Abdoullakh Anzorov go from Normandy to Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, near Paris, to do the killing.

Anzorov, who was 18 years old, was killed by police at the scene.

The other five suspects are accused of helping Anzorov find Mr. Paty at the school for €300. Anzorov told someone that he wanted to make a video of Mr. Paty apologizing for showing cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.

Next year, eight more grown-ups will have another trial because they are also accused of being involved in the murder. This includes Brahim Chnina, the father of the 13-year-old girl who is being judged.

One man is accused of going with Anzorov to buy weapons, and the other is accused of driving him to the school where Mr. Paty worked on the day he was killed.