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“I could no longer manage my lie”, testifies the daughter of Brahim Chnina – Libération

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This Tuesday, November 26, the hearing tried to shed light on the many times the teenager lied before and after the beheading of the history-geography teacher at the end of 2020. Now aged 17, she was sentenced to eighteen months in prison, suspended until the end of 2023, for slanderous denunciation.

His lie was similar to the butterfly effect. An ordinary fact with extraordinary consequences, ignoble in this case, with the beheading of Samuel Paty by the jihadist Abdoullakh Anzorov, on October 16, 2020. His lie is also the story of this trial: the irruption of a murderous ideology in the daily life of a school, a madness that no one knew or wanted to see coming. Now this lie has a face. Long black eyelashes, a hard and direct gaze, hair tied around a white ribbon. Zohra (1) Chnina, 17 years old today, 13 in 2020, is at the origin of a tragedy too big for her. Even if, obviously, she did not seize the multiple opportunities to stop her chilling headlong rush.

It must be said that the teenager is not devoid of character, as Francis Szpiner, advisor to Samuel Paty's ex-wife and son, points out. At the helm, Zohra holds the adults high, cutting the same Szpiner with a “let me finish” full of confidence, thinks through the questions that are asked to better avoid the traps. Before the attack, she lied to her parents and to the Conflans-Sainte-Honorine police officers during

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