Samuel Paty was killed in 2020 in a Paris suburb after showing caricatures of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad during class lesson on free speech
Eight individuals were sentenced to prison for their involvement in a hate campaign that resulted in the murder of Samuel Paty. The attack was fueled by false social media claims about Paty showing students images of the Prophet Muhammad.
The sentences handed down range from three to 16 years.
The attack took place following social media posts falsely claiming Paty had shown his students obscene pictures of the Prophet Muhammad during a lesson on free speech.
Abdoullakh Anzorov murdered Samuel Paty, a history and geography teacher, at a secondary school in the Paris suburb of Conflans-Saint-Honorine.
Anzorov was shot dead by police minutes after killing the 47-year-old.
He was fired up by claims circulating on the internet that a few days earlier Paty had ordered Muslims to leave a class of 13-year-olds, before displaying the images of the prophet Muhammad.
In fact, Paty had been conducting a lesson on freedom of speech, and before showing one of the controversial images first published by the Charlie Hebdo magazine, he advised pupils to avert their eyes if they feared being offended.