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REVEALED: French court cuts jail terms for three men in samuel paty murder case | Rare Historical Photos

A photograph of Samuel Paty seen at a tribute ceremony in Eragny-sur-Oise on 16 October, 2021, one year after he was beheaded by an extremist after showing his class cartoons of the Muslim Prophet Muhammad. AFP - ALAIN JOCARD

A French appeal court upheld one jail term and reduced three others over the chain of events that led to the beheading of teacher Samuel Paty by a Chechen jihadist in October 2020.

Paty’s killer, Abdoullakh Anzorov, was shot dead by police after the attack outside the Bois-d'Aulne secondary school in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, west of Paris, where Paty taught history and geography.

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