France is to put 14 people, including six CHILDREN, on trial for the murder of teacher Samuel Paty three years after he was beheaded by an Islamic extremist.

French prosecutors are seeking to prosecute 14 people for the killing and beheading of a school teacher by an Islamic extremist in 2020, a crime that shocked France, a source close to the case told AFP today.

The most serious charges – complicity in a terrorist murder – are aimed at two friends of the Chechen refugee who killed Samuel Paty after he showed his students pictures of the Prophet Muhammad during an ethics class.

Terrorism-related crime prosecutors also recommended charges against six other adults – and six children – for alleged crimes related to the Paty massacre in the Paris suburb of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine.

The murderer, 18-year-old Abdullakh Anzorov, was shot dead by the police on the spot.

The terrorist who beheaded a French teacher, 18-year-old Abdullakh Anzorov, near Paris

Crowds gathered at Place de la Sorbonne to watch the national tribute to murdered teacher Samuel Paty led by French President Emmanuel Macron October 21, 2020 in Paris

Prosecutors believe his friends, identified in the investigation as Azim E. and Naim B., went with Anzorov to buy a knife and Naim. B traveled with him to school.

The investigating magistrates will make the final decision as to whether the suspects will be charged or not and face trial.

Paty was targeted after reports spread on social media that he showed his class cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad from the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.

The 47-year-old history and geography teacher used the magazine as part of an ethics class to discuss free speech laws in secular France, which do not criminalize blasphemy.

Prosecutors also recommended terrorist group charges for the father of a student at Mr. Paty’s school, a radical Islamic preacher, as well as a Muslim convert connected to Anzorov via Twitter.

A teenage girl was sentenced to two years in prison in October for her role in the gruesome beheading of the French teacher Samuel Paty (photo).

After his death in October 2020, many paid tribute to the murdered teacher with the sentence “Je Suis Samuel”, which was shared out of solidarity.

Paty has become a symbol of France’s struggle to uphold its strict secular values, with President Emmanuel Macron calling him an “unsung hero” of the republic.

News of the investigation into Anzorov’s alleged accomplices comes just months after a 17-year-old Muslim girl was sentenced to two years in prison last October for her role in Mr Paty’s murder.

The girl, whose name cannot be disclosed for legal reasons, was found guilty of “terrorist criminal organization” by the Parys Children’s Court.

The teenager relayed the terrorists’ demands at the time of the assassination and was found to have Isis footage and weapons information on her phone.

During her sentencing, she expressed a desire to travel to Turkey or Chechnya, with prosecutors saying she still shows signs of radicalization.

But in custody, police said they made comments condemning the murder.

She was sentenced to three and a half years in prison with 18 months suspended.