In France, teenagers involved in the murder of a teacher by a native of Chechnya were convicted

Six college students in France have been convicted of involvement in the 2020 murder of history teacher Samuel Paty by ethnic Chechen Abdullah Anzorov. One student received 24 months' imprisonment, including six months' actual sentence. Four were given suspended sentences ranging from 14 to 18 months. The sixth defendant was sentenced to 18 months' suspended imprisonment.

All defendants were minors at the time of the crime. They were found guilty of spying on the teacher at Anzorov’s request and partly provoking him to murder. Eight adult defendants will also be tried in 2024.

On October 6, 2020, in a suburb of Paris, Chechen Abdullah Anzorov killed a French high school history teacher, Samuel Paty, by cutting off his head. The attacker was shot dead by police immediately after committing the crime.

Let us recall that the murder of the teacher occurred after, during a lesson on freedom of speech, he showed his students a caricature of the Islamic prophet published by Charlie Hebdo.

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