A French schoolgirl has admitted to lying and spreading false claims about a teacher who was murdered last year, reports BBC News.
Samuel Paty was beheaded in October after showing students cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.
The girl, whose complaints sparked an online campaign against Paty, has now admitted that she was not in the class.
Mr Paty's killing stunned France and led to an outpouring of support at memorial ceremonies and marches around the country.
The 13-year-old girl, who has not been named, originally told her father that Paty had asked Muslim students to leave the classroom while he showed the cartoon during a class on free speech and blasphemy.
"She lied because she felt trapped in a spiral because her classmates had asked her to be a spokesperson," her lawyer, Mbeko Tabula, told the AFP news agency.
The girl's father filed a legal complaint against the teacher and began an online hate campaign over the incident.
Prosecutors said shortly after the killing that there was a "direct causal link" between the online incitement against Paty and his murder.