A French court has jailed seven men and one woman for their role in a hate campaign that led to the October 2020 murder. of the teacher Samuel Paty in a suburb of Paris.
Sentences ranged from 3 to 16 years.
The attack followed social media posts alleging that Patty showed her students indecent pictures of the Prophet Muhammad during a free speech lesson.
Chechen-born radicalized Muslim Abdullah Anzorov killed Samuel Paty, a history and geography teacher, at a secondary school in the Paris suburb of Conflans-Saint-Honorin.
Anzorov was shot on the spot by police minutes after the 47-year-old man's murder.
He was inflamed by claims circulating on the internet that a few days earlier, Patti had ordered Muslims to leave a class of 13-year-olds before displaying images of the Prophet Mohammed.
In fact, Patty was teaching a lesson on freedom of speech and before showing one of the controversial images first published by Charlie Hebdo magazine, he advised students to avert their eyes if they were afraid of being offended.
In the absence of the murderer, this trial was against people who had given him support, moral or material.
For seven weeks, the court heard how a 13-year-old schoolgirl's lie spiraled out of control thanks to social media.
Among those sentenced on Friday was Brahim Hnina, the schoolgirl's father.
Chnina launched an online campaign against the teacher and enlisted the help of radical Islamic activist Abdelhakim Sefriwi, who has also been convicted.
Two friends of the killer who were with him when he bought guns were also found guilty, as were four people he shared messages with on a radical chat line.
The defense argued that none of the eight had any idea of Anzorov's intentions and that their words and actions only became criminal when he committed his act.
But the judge ruled that lack of foreknowledge was no defense because what they did had the effect of incitement.