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| Six Teenagers Convicted in France for Role in Teacher’s Killing | Six Teenagers Convicted in France for Role in Teacher’s Killing |
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| Six teenagers were convicted by a court in Paris on Friday in connection with the attack on Samuel Paty, a history teacher whose killing by an Islamist extremist in 2020 shook France to its core. | Six teenagers were convicted by a court in Paris on Friday in connection with the attack on Samuel Paty, a history teacher whose killing by an Islamist extremist in 2020 shook France to its core. |
| Five of the defendants, former middle-school students at the school where Mr. Paty taught, were found guilty of helping the killer identify and track the teacher, although they were not believed to have known that he intended to kill. | Five of the defendants, former middle-school students at the school where Mr. Paty taught, were found guilty of helping the killer identify and track the teacher, although they were not believed to have known that he intended to kill. |
| They were convicted on charges of being involved in a criminal conspiracy to prepare a violent assault. Four received suspended prison sentences of 14 to 20 months. The fifth received a two-year prison sentence, with 18 months of it suspended and six months to be served under house arrest with an electronic bracelet. | They were convicted on charges of being involved in a criminal conspiracy to prepare a violent assault. Four received suspended prison sentences of 14 to 20 months. The fifth received a two-year prison sentence, with 18 months of it suspended and six months to be served under house arrest with an electronic bracelet. |
| Mr. Paty, 47, had shown caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad during a civics class to illustrate free speech and was subsequently beheaded because of the act on Oct. 16, 2020, near the school where he worked in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, a northwestern suburb of Paris. | Mr. Paty, 47, had shown caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad during a civics class to illustrate free speech and was subsequently beheaded because of the act on Oct. 16, 2020, near the school where he worked in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, a northwestern suburb of Paris. |
| The assailant, Abdoullakh Anzorov, was an 18-year-old Russian of Chechen descent who had learned about Mr. Paty after the teacher became the target of an online smear campaign. | |
| Mr. Anzorov had stalked Mr. Paty’s school the day of the killing and had enlisted the five teenagers’ help in exchange for about $320, telling them he wanted to confront Mr. Paty and force him to apologize. Mr. Anzorov was shot and killed by the police shortly after the attack. |