How a teenage lie led to the beheading of a teacher

BCF : Six youngsters in France have been convicted of their roles in the savage killing of Samuel Paty after false accusations generated a storm online

Just 14 minutes before he stabbed and decapitated Samuel Paty, a French school teacher he felt deserved to die for the sin of blasphemy, Abdoullakh Anzorov made a last check that he was about to kill the right man.

It was a Friday afternoon in October 2020, and the Chechen-born Islamist was standing near a school in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, a sleepy suburban town northwest of Paris. He was talking to a group of five boys, aged 14 and 15, to whom he had promised a €300 (£257) reward for pointing out their teacher to him as he walked home after class.

Just to be sure, Anzorov, who was 18, asked one of the boys to telephone a female classmate, aged 13, whose accusations against the teacher had generated the online storm that had driven him to act. Her voice audible over the phone’s speaker, she confirmed the story that she had repeated several times, that she had been disciplined for confronting Paty over a request for Muslim students to leave the class, since first telling her father ten days earlier. But it was a lie.

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