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submitted 9 months ago by DolphinMath@slrpnk.net to c/world@lemmy.world

A French court on Friday convicted six teenagers in connection with the 2020 beheading of history teacher Samuel Paty, whose murder shocked the country.

The teacher had shown his pupils caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad in a class on freedom of expression, angering some Muslim parents. Most Muslims avoid depictions of prophets, considering them to be blasphemous.

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[-] atx_aquarian@lemmy.world 58 points 9 months ago

The heaviest sentence was given to an adolescent who was formally given a 6-month prison sentence, although he should be able to serve this at home while under electronic surveillance.

Grounded.

[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 21 points 9 months ago

Makes sense.

After all, all they did was make it easier to decapitate someone.

[-] steven@infosec.pub 1 points 9 months ago

The court found those adolescents as guilty of having pointed out Paty to the murderer.

Pretty wild to go to jail for 6 months for telling someone about your teacher that is showing photos of the prophet. Should everyone who retweeted the Charlie Hebdo cartoon also be charged with complicity them?

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