A middle school teacher was beheaded in France last year after he showed his students the infamous Charlie Hebdo magazine Muhammad cartoons.

But now, the Muslim schoolgirl whose charges of discrimination sparked the campaign of outrage aimed at the late Samuel Paty admits she fabricated her version of events. She was not even in class on the day the 47-year-old teacher presented the controversial drawings during a civics lesson on freedom of expression and blasphemy.

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