Paris, Nov 27 (EFE).- Six students from the school in the Paris region where Professor Samuel Paty taught, beheaded in 2020 by a young Chechen jihadist, who were minors at the time of the events, sit in the dock as of today for his involvement in this terrorist crime that shocked France.
The trial scheduled until December 8 before the Paris Children’s Court, which is being held behind closed doors due to the minority of the defendants, precedes another that will be held at the end of 2024 against 8 adults also involved in the case.
In this second trial, unlike the one initiated now, the accused will respond to charges of terrorism.
The main protagonist of the current process is the youngest of the six, a teenager who was 13 years old on that fateful October 16, 2020 when Paty was murdered outside the Bois d’Aulne school in Conflans Saint Honorine, and who could be sentenced to two and a half years in prison if found guilty of the charge of slanderous denunciation.
She is accused of having unleashed an infernal mechanism by lying about the development of a history teacher’s class that she did not attend, dedicated to the controversial caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad that had already been at the origin of the jihadist attack against the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. in January 2015.
Nine days before the October 2020 attack, the teenager, who had been sanctioned for reasons that had nothing to do with Paty, said that in that class on freedom of expression and the meaning of secularism the teacher had asked the Muslim students to leave the classroom while the famous cartoons were projected.
In reality, the professor had only suggested that those who might feel offended by those images published by Charlie Hebdo not watch during the screening.
But the story that the girl gave to her father, Brahim Chnina, one of those who will be tried from November 12 to December 20, 2024, led him to launch a campaign on social networks against Samuel Paty, for whom he claimed among other things his dismissal with the help of Abdelhakim Sefriouui, an Islamist activist.
A campaign that had a particular echo in Abdoullakh Anzorov, an 18-year-old Chechen refugee who lived in the city of Evreux, 80 kilometers away, and who was radicalized for religious reasons.
On the day of the crime, Anzorov went to Conflans Sainte Honorine armed with knives and outside the school he approached a student, promising him 300 euros if he helped him identify Paty when he left the center.
The boy told four other friends, to whom he proposed sharing the money in exchange for pointing out to the teacher the young Chechen who, according to his version, intended to film him “apologizing for the caricature of the prophet.”
The five minors described Paty and spent a couple of hours watching until they told Anzorov who he was, who paid them and minutes later stabbed him to death before decapitating him.
They are prosecuted on four charges and face sentences of up to two and a half years in prison.
The jihadist was killed shortly after by police shots, warned of the terrorist attack. EFE
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2023-11-27 17:02:53
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