French pupil’s father to go on trial for spreading lies that led to teacher’s Islamist beheading
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Eight charged in connection with murder of Samuel Paty in Paris suburbs in 2020

Summary

In October 2020, Samuel Paty, a French teacher, was murdered following a false accusation by a 13-year-old student who claimed he’d shown anti-Muslim bias. The girl had made up the story to cover the fact she had been suspended from school for bad behaviour.

In reality, Paty’s lesson on free speech included optional viewing of Charlie Hebdo cartoons, but he hadn’t excluded anyone. The student’s story triggered a social media campaign led by her father, who, along with others, is now on trial for inciting hatred and connections to Paty’s attacker, an 18-year-old radicalized Chechen.

The school will be named the Samuel Paty School from next year.

  • Cypher@lemmy.worldEnglish
    261·
    2 months ago

    NAZI Germany was Christian and endorsed by the Pope you absolute clown

    • Flax@feddit.ukEnglish
      435·
      2 months ago

      The Nazis were absolutely NOT endorsed by the Pope. Romanist bishops were often jailed for speaking out.

        • Flax@feddit.ukEnglish
          218·
          2 months ago

          Nazi breaches of the agreement began almost as soon as it had been signed and intensified afterwards, leading to protest from the Church, including in the 1937 Mit brennender Sorge encyclical of Pope Pius XI. The Nazis planned to eliminate the Church’s influence by restricting its organizations to purely religious activities.

          Read your own article.

          • Cypher@lemmy.worldEnglish
            182·
            2 months ago

            Oh no! Leopards ate their faces. What a shame. Who could have seen this coming from fascists.

            • Flax@feddit.ukEnglish
              217·
              2 months ago

              A religious organisation agreeing to keep out of politics is fascist?