two friends and accomplices of the attacker appeal

Azim Epsirkhanov, 23, and Naïm Boudaoud, 22, two friends of the attacker, were both sentenced to 16 years in prison on Friday for complicity in murder.

Azim Epsirkhanov and Naïm Boudaoud are appealing their conviction handed down by the Paris Special Assize Court during the trial for the assassination of Samuel Paty, France Bleu Normandie learned on Tuesday, December 24, from their respective lawyers.

Azim Epsirkhanov, 23, and Naïm Boudaoud, 22, two friends of the attacker, were both sentenced to 16 years in prison on Friday for complicity in murder. They had accompanied the killer to Rouen, to buy the knife which was found at the crime scene on October 16, 2020, in Conflans-Saint-Honorine. Naïm Boudaoud had also taken Abdoullakh Anzorov to the area around the school on the morning of the murder.

On Friday, the Paris special assize court found guilty and sentenced the eight people involved, to varying degrees, in the assassination of professor Samuel Paty, beheaded by a radical Chechen Islamist who had been shot dead by the police shortly after his act, October 16, 2020. Abdelhakim Sefrioui, convicted of terrorist conspiracy and sentenced to 15 years of criminal imprisonment, also appealed.