The six former students involved in the murder of French teacher Samuel Paty (47) receive a prison sentence of fourteen months, suspended for up to six months under electronic supervision. A court in Paris decided this.
Paty, a 47-year-old history and geography teacher, was stabbed and beheaded on October 16, 2020 at the school where he worked near Paris. The perpetrator was 18-year-old Abdoullakh Anzorov, a Russian refugee of Chechen descent. The radicalized Islamist was shot dead by police after the attack.
Five minors, who were 14 and 15 years old at the time of the facts, appeared in court for gang formation to commit aggravated violence. They were accused of standing guard at the school and allegedly assigned Paty to Anzorov for a fee.
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Cartoons of Prophet Muhammad
A sixth teen, who was 13 at the time, was tried on false charges after admitting she lied about the content of a Paty class she didn’t even attend. The girl claimed that Paty asked the Muslim students in the class to go outside before showing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.
That lie was the basis of the fierce hate campaign fueled on social media by the girl’s father, Brahim Chnina, and the Islamist activist Abdelhakim Sefrioui. Anzorov also saw the messages, with all the consequences that entailed.
The assize trial of eight adults will follow in the case at the end of 2024. Four of them, including Chnina and Sefrioui, must answer for terrorist gang formation. Two others are accused of complicity in terrorist murder.
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