"Samuel Paty, 47, was murdered in October 2020 by an 18-year-old radical Islamist of Chechen origin in an act that horrified France. His attacker, Abdoullakh Anzorov, was killed in a shootout with police. Two friends of Anzorov, French national Naim Boudaoud and Azim Epsirkhanov, a Russian of Chechen origin, had their sentences of 16 years in prison reduced to six and seven years respectively by a Paris court of appeal."
"Brahim Chnina, the Moroccan father of a girl who falsely claimed that Paty had asked Muslim students to leave his classroom before showing the caricatures, had his 13-year sentence reduced to 10 years. His daughter, then aged 13, was not actually in the classroom at the time and during the first trial apologised to the teacher's family."
"Paty, who has become a free-speech icon, used the cartoons as part of an ethics class to discuss freedom of expression laws in France. The quartet were among the seven men and one woman found guilty in 2024 of contributing to the climate of hatred that led to the beheading of the history and geography teacher in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, west of Paris."
Samuel Paty, a 47-year-old history and geography teacher, was murdered in October 2020 by 18-year-old Abdoullakh Anzorov, a radical Islamist of Chechen origin, after showing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed during an ethics class on freedom of expression. Anzorov was killed in a police shootout. A Paris court of appeal reduced sentences for three men convicted of supporting the attack: Naim Boudaoud and Azim Epsirkhanov had their 16-year sentences reduced to six and seven years respectively for driving Anzorov and helping procure weapons. Brahim Chnina, father of a girl who falsely claimed Paty discriminated against Muslim students, had his 13-year sentence reduced to 10 years. The court maintained a 15-year sentence for activist Abdelhakim Sefrioui. Eight individuals were convicted in 2024 of contributing to the hatred that led to Paty's death.
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