A trial got underway Monday in Paris of eight people facing a range of charges related to the murder of French schoolteacher Samuel Paty, who was beheaded in an Islamist terror attack outside his school.

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 are on trial in France 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.