In particular, he had posted a video of the father of Samuel Paty’s killer on Instagram. A Chechen was sentenced on Thursday in Nice to one year in prison for “apology of terrorism”. He has also received a permanent ban from the territory.
In France since 2020, this 31-year-old man had shared, between November 2021 and October 2022, “video and photo messages and pro-jihadist comments”, specified the president of the criminal court of Nice. With more than 18,000 “followers,” who he says he mostly “bought,” he broadcast these messages on an account with an Arabic name meaning “Chechen.”
“I do not support any act of terrorism”
In addition to photos or videos of armed fighters, he had broadcast an interview between a Chechen blogger and the father of Abdoullakh Anzorov, a Russian refugee of Chechen origin, author of the assassination of history professor Samuel Paty on October 16, 2020 in the Paris region. He said he was “satisfied with what his son had done, explaining that he had defended the honor of all Chechens and all Muslims”, recalled the president.
“I do not support any act of terrorism,” defended the defendant, who has been in prison since October 2022. “I aired it because the father explains how his son was influenced and metamorphosed,” he said, he adds. And the calls to jihad that he has published? “I don’t understand Arabic so I didn’t understand the content of the messages. »
“Behind a very smooth-looking profile hides a formidable adherent of radical Islamic ideas,” said the prosecutor who had asked for an additional year in prison.
