On April 16, 2020, Samuel Paty, professor of history and geography in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine (Yvelines), was beheaded a few meters from the college where he worked.
The author of this assassination, Abdoullakh Anzorov, was neutralized by the police shortly after the events.
From this Monday, November 4 and until December 20, eight adults will be tried by the special assize court of Paris. TF1info details their profiles.
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The trial of the assassination of Samuel Paty
On October 16, 2020, while the trial of the bloody attacks perpetrated in Charlie Hebdoat Hyper Cacher and in Montrouge was held at the Paris court and a new chopper attack had just been perpetrated in front of the former premises of the satirical newspaper, a history and geography professor was beheaded a few meters from the college du Bois d'Aulne where he worked, in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine (Yvelines).
The perpetrator is Abdoullakh Anzorov, a young Chechen Russian aged 18, who accused the teacher of having “showed the prophet Muhammad” naked to 4th grade students ten days earlier, in this case, a caricature of Charlie Hebdo as part of a lesson on press freedom entitled “dilemma situation: to be or not to be Charlie”. This man with refugee status and residing in Évreux (Eure) had heard of this lesson via Brahim Chnina, parent of a student who had stigmatized and designated the teacher as a target in videos on the Internet after his daughter had alerted, even though she had not attended the course in question.
From this Monday until December 20, this father and seven other people will appear before the special criminal court of Paris for having participated directly or indirectly in this attack. Two friends of the terrorist are tried for complicity in terrorist assassination and face life imprisonment: Naïm Boudaoud and Azim Epsirkhanov. Six others appear for criminal terrorist association, and face thirty years of criminal imprisonment. TF1info returns to the profile of these accused aged 22 to 65.
The schoolgirl's father and the Islamist activist
brahim chinina a 52-year-old Moroccan, is the father of Z., the schoolgirl at the origin of the controversy over Samuel Paty's course. Co-founder of Aide-Moi, an association helping people with reduced mobility to go on pilgrimage to Mecca, he is accused of having launched with Abdelhakim Sefrioui, 65-year-old Franco-Moroccan and Islamist activist, founder of the pro-Hamas collective Cheikh Yassine, dissolved in October 2020, a vast campaign of cyberharassment against the professor.
Thus, on October 7 and 8, the two men produced and broadcast videos on social networks drawing attention to the “thug”videos in which false or erroneous information appeared intended to arouse a feeling of hatred towards Samuel Paty. The two also widely publicized the name of the teacher as well as the address of the college.
Brahim Chnina also had, between October 7 and 9, nine telephone contacts with the terrorist Abdoullakh Anzorov. The sixty-year-old, detained since October 21, 2020, does not recognize any responsibility for the acts with which he is accused. Ditto for Abdelhakim Sefrioui, now detained, who has always affirmed that he did not want “only administrative sanctions” against Samuel Paty.
Naïm Boudaoud and Azim Epsirkhanov, the attacker's friends
By their side in the box this Monday, Azim Epsirkhanov et Naim Boudaoudfriends of the attacker. They are suspected of having had precise knowledge of the terrorist project. These two residents of Évreux (Eure) had accompanied Abdoullakh Anzorov to buy weapons (a knife, an Airsoft gun and steel balls), and Naïm Boudaoud had also transported him to the Conflans-Sainte-Honorine college on day of the attack.
22-year-old Frenchman, Naïm Boudaoud is described as “vulnerable” et “influenceable”. He did not present, according to the prosecution, “no visible sign of violent radicalization” in 2020.
Azim Epsirkhanov, a 23-year-old Russian of Chechen origin who arrived in France in December 2010, met Abdoullakh Anzorov at college in 2013. He admitted to having received the sum of 800 euros from the terrorist to obtain a weapon for him. fired urgently, without however achieving its goals.
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The four other accused are notably prosecuted for having participated in an agreement established with a view to the preparation of an act of terrorism, with knowledge of the criminal ideological context, resulting from the dissemination of religious caricatures and for having reinforced Abdoullakh Anzorov in his project before the commission of the facts.
Among them, a woman, Priscilla Mangel36-year-old from Nîmes, under judicial supervision since June 25, 2021, converted to Islam as a teenager and married to a man known for his membership in the radical Islamist movement. She was in touch on Twitter with the killer in the days before the attack. She notably presented Samuel Paty's course to Abdoullakh Anzorov as an illustration of a war allegedly waged by republican institutions against Muslims. She also retweeted on September 1, 2020, after the publication of caricatures in Charlie Hebdo from the prophet Mohamed, these few words: “Apparently, Charlie Hebdo wants more.”
Yusuf Cinara 22-year-old Turkish man in detention since October 2020, had a Snapchat group called “Zbrr” with Abdoullakh Anzorov on which jihadist propaganda appeared. After the attack, he published Anzorov's message of protest and photographs of the body of Samuel Paty then videos in tribute to the attacker. Out of school at the age of 14 and an alcoholic, he lived mainly from drug trafficking.
Ismaïl Gamaeva 22-year-old Russian of Chechen origin, who entered France illegally in 2013, had refugee status and a resident card valid until August 2020. He published smiling smileys after the broadcast, on his Snapchat group “Students in medicine”, of the decapitated head of the teacher. With Abdoullakh Anzorov and Louqmane Ingar, he had exchanged messages with jihadist content several times on this group. He is under judicial supervision after two years of pre-trial detention.
Louqmane Ingar22, is accused of having administered and “actively participated” in the same Snapchat group as Ismaïl Gamaev. He planned, according to the prosecution, to leave France to go to Afghanistan or Syria. “in the ranks of a terrorist organization”. After a year in pre-trial detention, he was placed under judicial supervision on November 10, 2021.
