France’s anti-terrorism court has convicted eight people of involvement in the beheading of teacher Samuel Paty in 2020. Paty was killed near Paris days after showing his class cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad during a debate on free expression. The assailant, an 18-year-old Russian of Chechen origin, was shot to death by police. Those convicted on Friday were accused, in some cases, of providing assistance to the perpetrator and, in others, of organizing a hate campaign online before the murder took place. The shocking death of the 47-year-old Paty left an imprint on France, and several schools are now named after him.
