First day of French trial linked to beheading of school

Thibault de Montbrial, lawyer of Mickaelle Paty, sister of slain school teacher Samuel Paty, talks to journalists before the start of the trial of eight people accused of involvement in the beheading of French history teacher Samuel Paty by a suspected Islamist in 2020 in an attack outside his school in the Paris suburb of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, at the Paris courthouse on the Ile de la Cite, in Paris, France, November 4, 2024. REUTERS/Sarah Meyssonnier