The trial of eight people who allegedly helped the perpetrator in the brutal murder of history teacher Samuel Paty began in a Paris court on Monday, four years after the incident. The crime, classified as an Islamist-motivated terrorist act, shocked France and sparked international outrage. In October 2020, the suspect, an 18-year-old with Russian-Chechen origins, killed and beheaded the 47-year-old Paty in a Paris suburb. French security forces subsequently shot and killed the assailant. Before the killing, the history teacher had been targeted online for showing caricatures of the prophet Mo…