The investigation is continuing.

Four other schoolchildren were indicted on Wednesday November 25 in the investigation into the assassination of Professor Samuel Paty, beheaded on October 16 after showing caricatures of Muhammad to his students, we learned Thursday 26 November from judicial source.

Three of these minors, aged 13 and 14, were indicted for "complicity in terrorist assassination", suspected of having designated the victim to the assailant Abdoullakh Anzorov in front of their college in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine (Yvelines ), this source told AFP.

The fourth person, indicted for "slanderous denunciation", is the daughter of the parent of a pupil behind the media campaign against Samuel Paty, himself prosecuted and imprisoned.

14 people prosecuted

These four adolescents were placed in police custody, Monday or Tuesday, at the request of the anti-terrorism investigating judges of the Paris court responsible for the investigation.

All were released under judicial supervision after their presentation to the investigating magistrates, added the judicial source.

A total of 14 people are now being prosecuted in this case.

Two first schoolchildren aged 14 and 15 had been indicted for "complicity in terrorist assassination" on October 21, accused of having designated the teacher to the assailant against "300 to 350 euros", had indicated the anti-terrorism prosecutor Jean-François Ricard.

The parent of a student behind the campaign to denigrate the teacher and the Islamist activist who supported him, Abdelhakim Sefrioui, are also being prosecuted for "complicity".

The two men had accused the teacher of "discrimination" against Muslim students on the basis of the story of a student of Samuel Paty.

The latter, however, had not attended the class where the professor had shown caricatures of the prophet of Islam on October 6.

But she was present the day before when Samuel Paty had warned his students of the content of the next day's course, and accused him of having then asked Muslim college students to report.

The father and daughter had gone to the police station against Samuel Paty on October 7.

With AFP

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