It was one of the most shocking murders in recent French history. One afternoon in October 2020, Samuel Paty, a teacher, was beheaded near his school in a sleepy town west of Paris by a
Chechen-born Islamist in the culmination of an extraordinary campaign of online harassment against him.
This week, Brahim Chnina, 52, who triggered the outpouring of hate against Paty with mistaken claims of discrimination against his 13-year-old daughter, will appear in a Paris courtroom.
