A French court has convicted six teenagers in connection with the death of a teacher in 2020, whose murder shocked the country.
47-year-old Samuel Paty had shown his pupils caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad from the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in a class on freedom of expression, angering some Muslim parents.
Most Muslims avoid depictions of prophets, considering them to be blasphemous.
Mr Paty was stabbed and beheaded near his secondary school in the Paris suburb of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine on 16 October 2020.
His attacker, 18-year-old Abdoullakh Anzorov, a Chechen refugee and radicalised Islamist, was shot dead at the scene by police.
The trial was held behind closed doors given the young ages - between 13 and 15 years old - of the defendants at the time of the events.
Among the defendants was a teenage girl who had allegedly told her parents that the history and geography teacher had asked Muslim pupils to leave the room before showing the caricatures.
The court found her guilty of having made false accusations and slanderous comments, as it was established that she was not in the class at the time.
She received an 18-month suspended sentence and was put on probation for two years.
The other teens were convicted of charges related to pre-meditated criminal conspiracy and helping to prepare an ambush.
The court found that they had pointed out Mr Paty to the murderer.
The heaviest sentence - a six-month term - was given to a male teenager, although he should be able to serve this at home while under electronic surveillance.
