A man takes a copy of the latest edition of French weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo with the title 'One year on, The assassin still on the run' displayed at a kiosk in Nice, France, January 6, 2016. | (Photo: Reuters/Eric Gaillard)
The French schoolgirl who accused her teacher of showing cartoon caricatures of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad to a class in October, which led to his murder and decapitation by an Islamic radical, has admitted she lied about the incident.
The 13-year-old girl, whose complaints about her teacher’s actions led to an online campaign against him, recently admitted she was not even in the class that day. She said she did not see the controversial cartoons of Muhammad personally, but a girl in her class showed them to her, BBC reports.