Before the crime, there was agitation on the Internet against the teacher because he had shown caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad in class on the topic of freedom of expression. Five students, who were 13 and 14 years old at the time of the crime and who allegedly identified Paty as the aggressor, are accused of forming a criminal organization. A 13-year-old student will also have to answer for a false accusation that started the defamatory campaign and triggered the crime. She told her father, a radical Islamist, that Paty punished her because she criticized him for the caricatures of Muhammad. In fact, the girl simply skipped classes. The angry father then spread material against Paty on social media.
