[Síguenos ahora también en WhatsApp. Da clic aquí]

Father of a French student whose story about using caricatures of the prophet Muhammad in a lesson on freedom of expression indirectly led to the murder of the professor, who went on trial on Monday on charges of links to the network terrorist.

Samuel Patty47 years old, was slaughtered repeatedly in 2020 near his school in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, near ParisAn 18-year-old attacker of Chechen origin, and then headlessa few days after showing the cartoons to his students.

Many Muslims consider depictions of prophets to be blasphemous.

Prosecutors allege Brahim Chnina used social media to turn a controversy over a civics lesson into a campaign against Paty, helping create videos intended to incite hatred against the high school teacher and distributing them on social media.

Prosecutors accuse Chnina of collaborating with Abdelhakim Sefrioui, a French-Moroccan who founded the radical Islamist organization Sheikh Yassin Collective, which was later banned in France.

Both are accused of having connections with terrorist organization. Chnina’s lawyer declined to comment before the trial began.

Sefrioui’s lawyer, Ouadi Elhamamouchi, said there was no evidence of contact between Sefrioui and the Chechen killer shot dead by police.