INFO BFMTV. Friday evening, Naïm Boudaoud and Azim Epsirkhanov were found guilty of complicity in murder and sentenced to 16 years of criminal imprisonment.
After the conviction on Friday evening of their client to 16 years of criminal imprisonment for complicity in a terrorist assassination, the lawyers of Naïm Boudaoud and Azim Epsirkhanov, the two friends of Samuel Paty's assassin, will appeal the verdict of the special assize court of ParisBFMTV learned this Saturday, December 21.
Sentenced to 15 years of criminal imprisonment for terrorist conspiracy, preacher Abdelhakim Sefrioui announced after the verdict that he also intended to appeal, but his lawyers have not yet officially announced this decision. .
Friday evening, the verdict was greeted by strong protests from relatives of the accused. The Paris Special Assize Court notably decided to go beyond the requisitions of the National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor's Office (PNAT) by choosing not to reclassify the offense of “complicity in terrorist assassination” as “terrorist criminal association”. .
They “were aware of the radicalism” of Anzorov
In its requisitions, the PNAT had requested a sentence of 14 years of criminal imprisonment accompanied by a two-thirds security period against Naïm Boudaoud and a sentence of 16 years in prison also accompanied by a two-thirds security period against Azim Epsirkhanov.
In its verdict, the court did not, however, retain the two-thirds security period against the two young men, aged 22 and 23 respectively.
Azim Epsirkhanov was accused of having helped Abdoullakh Anzorov, an 18-year-old Chechen radical Islamist, to obtain weapons, while Naïm Boudaoud was accused of having led him to the vicinity of the Bois-d'Aulne college, in Conflans -Sainte-Honorine (Yvelines), October 16, 2020. Both however affirmed at the hearing that they were completely unaware of the murderous intentions of their friend and have never stopped proclaiming their innocence.
The two young people “were aware of Anzorov's radicalism” and that he “had the desire to attack the physical integrity of a third party”, the court ruled. However, underlined President Franck Zientara, “it has not been demonstrated that (the two young people) were informed of Anzorov's intention to kill Samuel Paty.”
Matthias Tesson with Vincent Gautier
