France’s anti-terrorism court has convicted eight people of involvement in the beheading of teacher Samuel Paty in 2020.

The trial of eight people in Paris on terrorism charges started on Monday over the beheading of teacher Samuel Paty.

A French juvenile court has convicted six teenagers for their roles in the beheading of a teacher by an Islamic extremist that shocked the country.

French authorities and media reports say a female teacher has been stabbed to death in southwestern France by a high school student.

French schools are paying tribute to a teacher beheaded by a radical Islamist last year after he showed caricatures of the prophet of Islam to his class.

Thirteen people on trial in Paris are accused of cyberbullying or death threats against a teenage girl who posted comments online critical of Islam.

The wide-ranging bill, titled “Supporting respect for the principles of the Republic,” covers most aspects of French life. But Le Pen criticized the bill as too weak and offered what she called her own, tougher counter-proposal. The bill mentions neither Muslims nor Islam by name. The measure has been dubbed the "separatism" bill, a term used by Macron to refer to radicals who would create a “counter society” in France. Associations must sign a contract of respect for French values and pay back state funds, if they cross a line.

An activist holds a placard reading Freedom guides all people during a gathering in Paris, Sunday, Feb. 14, 2021. Activists rallied Sunday in Paris to demand that the French government abandon a bill aimed at rooting out Islamist extremism that the protesters say could trample on religious freedom and make all Muslims into potential suspects. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)PARIS – Activists rallied Sunday in Paris to demand that the French government abandon a bill aimed at rooting out Islamist extremism that the protesters say could trample on religious freedom and make all Muslims into potential suspects. French lawmakers hold a key vote Tuesday on the draft law, which is expected to win approval in both houses of parliament. 2 religion even though the majority of French Muslims do not espouse extremist views.

Are pictured in Nice, southern France, Saturday Nov. 7, 2020, during a ceremony in homage to the three victims of an attack at Notre-Dame de Nice Basilica on October 29, 2020. The prosecutors' office said one of the photos showed Abdoullakh Anzorov, the Chechen refugee identified as the killer of teacher Samuel Paty. But investigators have as yet been unable to interview the suspected church attacker, previously identified as Ibrahim Issaoui, because he remains in serious condition in a Paris-region hospital, the prosecutors' office said a statement. The prosecutors' office said it opened a formal investigation Friday on terrorism charges that will enable investigators to keep probing whether the suspected attacker had any accomplices in France, Tunisia or Italy. He traveled through Italy before reaching Nice less than 48 hours before the attack in the Mediterranean city's Notre Dame Basilica.

THE HAGUE – Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said Friday that threats that forced a teacher in the port city of Rotterdam to go hiding after some students objected to a political cartoon displayed in his classroom must not be tolerated. Rutte spoke hours after Rotterdam police said they had arrested an 18-year-old girl on suspicion she posted a message on social media that “incited others to commit crimes" directed at the school and teacher. Police tweeted Nov. 3 that the teacher had been threatened and that they were treating the case “extremely seriously.” Police did not elaborate on the nature of the threats. The cartoonist, Joep Bertrams, told Dutch daily Trouw this week that it is not a depiction of Islam's Prophet Muhammad. The drawing won a Dutch prize as the best political cartoon of the year in 2015.

(AP Photo/Oleg Cetinic)PARIS – French schools held a nationwide minute of silence Monday in tribute to a teacher who was beheaded for opening a class debate on free speech by showing students caricatures of the prophet of Islam. France's prime minister minister, Jean Castex, arrived to lend support. Other schools throughout the country resumed as usual to both students and teachers. The cartoons were originally published in Denmark in 2005 and elsewhere later in countries where freedom of expression is considered inviolable. “The Netherlands stands squarely behind teachers and the constitutional freedom of expression,” ministers Arie Slob and Ingrid van Engelshoven wrote.

(AP Photo/Daniel Cole)PARIS – The attack in Nice on Thursday follows a spate of Islamic extremist violence in France in recent years. Here is a look at some of those attacks:— Oct. 16, 2020: History teacher Samuel Paty is decapitated in the Paris suburbs. — June 1, 2017: An Algerian man wielding a hammer attacks police officers patrolling in front of Notre Dame Cathedral. He had declared his allegiance to the Islamic State. — Jan. 7-9, 2015: Attacks on the Paris offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and on a kosher grocery leave 17 dead.

French anti-terrorist state prosecutor Jean-Francois Ricard holds a press conference Wednesday Oct.21, 2020 in Paris. At a national memorial at the Sorbonne University in central Paris, Macron praised history teacher Samuel Paty as the “face of the Republic” who “believed in knowledge.”Paty, 47, was murdered on Friday by an 18-year-old of Chechen origin who had become radicalized. Anzorov claimed responsibility in a text accompanied by a photograph of the victim found on his phone. Government spokesperson Gabriel Attal said it was “implicated, linked to Friday’s attack” and it was used to promote anti-republican hate speech. Authorities say it has long had an imam following the Salafist path, a rigorous interpretation of the Muslim holy book.

Emmanuel Macron said the group will be ordered dissolved Wednesday, when a mosque that relayed a denunciation of the teacher is also to shut. The French president is waging war on what he calls “separatism,” referring to Islamist extremism that authorities say has created a parallel world in the country that counters French values. A mosque in the northeast Paris suburb of Pantin is being closed for six months starting Wednesday night. The Pantin mosque is being punished for relaying the angry father's message on social media that called for mobilization against the teacher. Authorities say the mosque has long had an imam following the Salafist path, a rigorous interpretation of the Muslim holy book.

Flowers lay outside the school where slain history teacher Samuel Paty was working, Saturday, Oct. 17, 2020 in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, northwest of Paris. French President Emmanuel Macron denounced what he called an "Islamist terrorist attack" against a history teacher decapitated in a Paris suburb Friday, urging the nation to stand united against extremism. The teacher had discussed caricatures of Islam's Prophet Muhammad with his class, authorities said. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)PARIS – Demonstrations around France have been called in support of freedom of speech and to pay tribute to a French history teacher who was beheaded near Paris after discussing caricatures of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad with his class. “On behalf of the United States, I’d like to extend my really sincere condolences to a friend of mine, President (Emmanuel) Macron of France, where they just yesterday had a vicious, vicious Islamic terrorist attack -- beheading an innocent teacher near Paris," he said.

Paty had discussed caricatures of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad with his class, leading to threats, police officials said. He also confirmed that a Twitter account under the name Abdoulakh A belonged to the suspect. A police official said the suspect was shot dead about 600 meters (yards) from where Paty died. France has offered asylum to many Chechens since the Russian military waged war against Islamist separatists in Chechnya in the 1990s and early 2000s. This is the second time in three weeks that terror has struck France linked to caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.