Student Admits Fabricating Claims Against Beheaded French Teacher Samuel Paty

The 13-year-old girl admitted during her custody that she had not attended the course on freedom of expression given on October 6, 2020 by Samuel Paty, reports Le Parisien. Mbeko Tabula, the student’s lawyer, confirmed this information to BFMTV. On November 25, the young girl had been indicted for slanderous denunciation, which had led to the assassination of the history-geography teacher on October 16, 2020 in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine (Yvelines) by a jihadist.

The young girl had told her father that Samuel Paty would have asked, during a course on freedom of expression, Muslim students to identify themselves and leave the classroom if they wished. This segregation would not have pleased the middle school student. The teacher was accused of having shown caricatures of Charlie Hebdo depicting the prophet Mohammad naked, on all fours.

The middle school student had not participated in this course. She "had been excluded due to her repeated absences, which she had wanted to hide from her father. It was a friend who had told her about the course the next day," reveals Le Parisien. Several of her classmates have also confirmed to the investigators the absence of the young girl during the course.