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November 5, 2024 – 20:56
Paris, Nov 5 (EFE).- The trial against those accused of complicity in the jihadist murder of French high school teacher Samuel Paty, in 2020, continued this Tuesday with the statements of several of the accused, who deny their guilt in the events. .
The court heard among others Azim Epsirkhanov, an alleged friend of the murderer, Abdoullakh Anzorov, who is accused along with a third party, Naïm Boudaoud, of having helped the 18-year-old Chechen refugee obtain weapons to carry out the crime.
“I have rejected it for four years,” Boudaoud said in his statement, according to the French press.
Boudaoud and Epsirkhanov face the most serious penalties of this trial that began this Monday, since the penalty for complicity in a terrorist murder can be increased to life imprisonment.
This Tuesday, the only woman among the eight defendants in this trial, Priscilla Mangel, who is part of the group of three people in the dock for having exchanged messages with the murderer and radical content on social networks such as Snapchat, also rejected the charges against her.
Paty, a 47-year-old history and geography teacher on the outskirts of Paris, was stabbed and beheaded by Anzorov in the center where he worked on October 16, 2020.
The events that led to his death began with a class he had taught on freedom of expression and secularism using 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.
Paty had suggested that those who might feel offended by those images not look during the screening, but a 13-year-old student – who had not even witnessed the class because it was sanctioned – said that the teacher had asked the Muslim students to leave the room. classroom while projecting the famous cartoons.
The minor’s version of events led her father, Brahim Chnina, and other people accused in this trial to launch a virulent campaign of hate and harassment against the teacher.
These events 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.
Almost a year ago, the Paris Children’s Court already sentenced six minors accused of complicity in the murder of Paty with sentences that ranged from 14 months in prison exempt from serving to six months in prison.
Anzorov, for his part, was shot dead by the police who were alerted by the attack. EFE
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