• Assassination of Samuel Paty, the professor beheaded in France for teaching Muhammad cartoons in class

  • France Samuel Paty's companions before being beheaded by a terrorist: "He has given arguments to the Islamists"

The 13-year-old student who accused the beheaded professor Samuel Paty of Islamophobia admitted that he lied, her lawyer told AFP on Monday, confirming information from the newspaper 'Le Parisien'.

"I was not present on the day of the cartoons,"

admitted the young woman who was charged with a "libelous complaint" during a hearing on November 25, 2020 before an antiterrorist judge.

Ten days before his beheading in October at the hands of an 18-year-old refugee from Chechen, this history and geography professor taught a class on freedom of expression in which he showed cartoons from the satirical weekly

Charlie Hebdo

.

The young woman, who was one of her students at the Bois-d'Aulne school, in a northwestern suburb of Paris, had said that the 47-year-old teacher

had invited Muslim students out of class

before show cartoons.

Based on his daughter's testimony, her father filed a complaint against the teacher and launched a virulent campaign on social media against the teacher with the help of an Islamist activist,

Abdelhakim Sefrioui

.

The two men, accused of "complicity in murder", are in preventive detention.

"She lied because she felt trapped in a chain of events because some of her colleagues had asked her to be their spokesperson," her lawyer,

Mbeko Tabula

, told AFP

.

"There was a real malaise and she

felt compelled to add to make the message stand out,

" she added.

Upon learning of the accusations against the teacher, an 18-year-old radicalized Chechen refugee beheaded him on October 16, before being killed by the police.

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