Six teenagers have been found guilty by a French juvenile court on Friday for their roles in the beheading of a teacher by an Islamic extremist. . 

Samuel Paty, a 47-year-old history teacher, was assassinated in 2020 outside his classroom during a free speech argument in which he displayed caricatures to his pupils of the prophet Muhammad. 

The teacher was tracked down and identified for the assailant by five of the defendants, who were 14 and 15 years old at the time of the attack, according to CBS news.

The teacher was stabbed by Abdoullakh Anzorov, a radicalised 18-year-old who arrived in France at age six with his Chechen parents 

near his secondary school in the Paris suburb of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine.

Mr Anzorov who had been granted asylum with his parents to stay in France was subsequently fatally shot by police on the spot.

And a separate defendant, a 13-year-old girl at the time, was found guilty of levelling unfounded allegations. Five more people, aged 14 to 15, were convicted of criminal conspiracy with the intent to inflict harm.

According to the report, the juvenile court trial of the teenagers took place in private, without the presence of the media.