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

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.

  • atx_aquarian@lemmy.worldEnglish
    642·
    7 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.

      • steven@infosec.pubEnglish
        21·
        7 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?

  • Dr. Moose@lemmy.worldEnglish
    568·
    7 months ago

    Seriously. There isn’t a single other cult in the world at this level of insanity where kids go about bheading their teacher because of a picture. Says everything you need to know.

    • Tiritibambix@lemmy.mlEnglish
      3918·
      7 months ago

      It’s not the cult, it’s the interpretation some maniacs make of it.

      Remember how Christians “pacified” entire populations here and there in Africa and the whole american continent. Doesn’t look good either 😏