Six teenagers were convicted Friday by a French juvenile court for their roles in the 2020 beheading of a teacher by an Islamic extremist, according to the Associated Press.
Five of the defendants, ages 14 and 15 at the time of the incident, were found guilty of involvement in stalking their history and geography teacher, Samuel Paty, and identifying him to the attacker, AP News reported. The sixth teen, who was 13 years old at the time, was found guilty of lying in online comments that provoked hatred against Paty. (RELATED: ISIS Leader Tied To American Beheading Killed In Missile Strike)
Paty was killed Oct. 16, 2020 outside the school he worked for after he showed his class cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad published by a French satire magazine, Charlie Hebdo, according to the BBC. The history and geography teacher displayed the caricatures for the class during a debate on free…
