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A pupil involved in the beheading of teacher Samuel Paty in a Paris suburb three years ago received a six month prison sentence on Friday, while five others were handed suspended sentences. On October 16, 2020, an 18-year-old killed and then decapitated Paty, a history teacher in a Paris suburb. The police shot and killed the perpetrator, who had Russian-Chechen roots. The murder was classified as an act of Islamist terrorism. It sent shock waves through France and prompted an international outcry. Before the murder, Paty had been targeted online for showing caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad…

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