Sentenced to prison for alleging that Samuel Paty ″ deserved ″ to die

A 19-year-old biology student who wrote on the social network Facebook that the teacher beheaded a week ago outside Paris, “deserved” to die, was this Friday sentenced to four months in prison for “excusing terrorism”.

The news is advanced by the agency France-Press (AFP), which also says that the young student will have to do a citizenship internship for six months.

The young woman responded to a report by L’Est Républicain published on the social network’s Facebook page in this regional daily: “He didn’t deserve to be beheaded, but to die.”

The comment was reported by a user and ended the detention on Thursday, while the student was attending classes at the University of Besançon.

“I am sorry to have written this comment, I apologize. I am against what I wrote,” said the young student in court, noting that she wrote “very fast” and “without thinking”, but that “deleted the comment that same night”.

The student added that she made “a very serious mistake”, ensuring that she was unaware of the circumstances in which History and Geography professor Samuel Paty was killed – for displaying caricatures of the prophet Muhammad during a class on freedom of expression.

The young woman, from a Muslim family who fled the violence in Algeria, explained that she had nothing against the way the teacher taught classes and “lives religion at home”.

The defendant’s lawyer argued that the student is a “well-placed young woman” in society, who is not in the habit of watching the news and, therefore, did not know the circumstances in which Samuel Paty died.

The young woman, continued the lawyer, came across a “video of a student’s parents”, which denounced the use of cartoons of Muhammad by the teacher.

“Immediately, she made the comment, without looking for information, reacted hotly” on social networks, she maintained.

Samuel Paty, 47, taught History and Geography in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, outside Paris (France), and was beheaded last Friday by Abdullakh Anzorov, a refugee of Russian and Chechen origin of 18 years.

The father of a student of Samuel Paty and Islamic preacher Abdelhakim Sefrioui are accused of “complicity in terrorist murder”.

Another five people are also formally charged, including two minors who reportedly identified the victim as the murderer in exchange for money, but were released into custody.

Pretrial detainees are still two friends of the aggressor, identified as Naim B. and Azim E., indicted on the same charge, as well as a close third person, Yussuf C., who incurs a crime of “terrorist conspiracy” with a view to ” execution of crimes against persons “.

The student’s father, Brahim Chnina, is being held pending the interrogation of this crime. He has started a social campaign against the professor and against the professor’s decision to show the cartoons of the prophet Muhammad during classes.

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