PARIS (Reuters) -Six teenagers go on trial behind closed doors on Monday in connection with the beheading of French history teacher Samuel Paty in 2020, a murder that shocked the country.
The teacher had shown his pupils caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad in a class on freedom of expression, angering some Muslim parents.
A 13-year-old girl at the time allegedly told her parents that Paty had asked Muslim pupils to leave the room before showing the caricatures.
They cannot be identified due to their age and entered court on Monday wearing hoodies to hide their faces.
France has suffered a wave of attacks by Islamist militants in past years, including a gun rampage in 2015 in the offices of Charlie Hebdo, a satirical magazine that had published caricatures Paty showed in his class.
Persons:
Samuel Paty, Prophet Mohammad, Paty, Antoine Ory, Mickaelle, Louis Cailliez, Charlie Hebdo, Lucien Libert, Juliette Jabkhiro, Sybille de La, Giles Elgood, Alison Williams
Organizations:
PARIS
Locations:
Paris, France