By Ségolène Le Stradic Reporting from Paris Eight people went on trial in Paris on Monday in connection with the murder of Samuel Paty, a history teacher whose beheading by an Islamist terrorist in 2020 shocked France and put the nation on edge.

Eight people went on trial in Paris yesterday on terrorism charges over the beheading of teacher Samuel Paty, who was killed by an Islamic extremist after showing caricatures of Islam’s prophet to his middle-school students for a lesson on freedom of expression.

Eight people who allegedly helped the perpetrator in the brutal murder of history teacher Samuel Paty are set to stand trial in a Paris court on Monday, four years after the incident. The crime, classified as an Islamist-motivated terrorist act,