Six teenagers convicted in France over teacher’s beheading in 2020

A French court on Friday convicted six teenagers for their role in the 2020 beheading of a teacher by a radicalized Islamist near Paris, in a case that horrified the country.

The prison sentences range from 14 months to two years, but all are suspended or commuted and no defendant will serve jail time, according to a court judgement. Samuel Paty, a 47-year-old history and geography teacher, was stabbed and then beheaded near his secondary school in the Paris on October 2020.