Eight people appear from this Monday, November 4 before the special assize court of Paris for their role in the death of the history and geography professor in 2020. Reunionese Louqmane Ingar is accused of having exchanged jihadist content with the perpetrator of the crime.
On October 16, 2020, history and geography professor Samuel Paty was assassinated in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine (Yvelines), just a few steps from the college where he taught. Abdoullakh Anzorov, a young radicalized Chechen, targeted him for showing caricatures of the naked Prophet Muhammad to his students.
Four years later, Monday November 4, the trial for the teacher's assassination opened in Paris. The terrorist will not be in the dock – the police shot him dead on the spot. But eight people, accused of having fueled the online harassment of which Samuel Paty was a victim or of having helped the attacker, appear before the special assize court, which judges the major terrorist cases which have hit France in recent years. years. Among them, a young Reunion Islander, Louqmane Ingar, accused of having exchanged messages with the author of the crime.
This Monday morning, around 10 a.m., the hearing opened with the very formal verification of the identities of the eight co-accused. Before the end of the week, the hearings of the personality investigators, the questioning of the background of the accused, the hearing of witnesses and civil parties will follow.
This is already the second trial into the macabre assassination of Samuel Paty which has opened. Last year, six college students were convicted for their role in the attack (in particular, they helped Abdoullakh Anzorov locate the professor). Since they were minors in 2020, they were tried separately.
This Monday, the trial of adults opened in Paris. The father of the young girl who lied (which led to the hate campaign against Samuel Paty leading to his death) as well as an Islamist preacher will be in the dock, as will two friends of the terrorist. Four other people are accused of having maintained virtual links with Abdoullakh Anzorov.
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This is the case of Reunionese Louqmane Ingar, 18 years old at the time of the events. Originally from Saint-Denis de La Réunion, the young man, a nursing student in Paris when the Samuel Paty affair broke out, was accused by the national anti-terrorism prosecutor's office (PNAT) of having supported the Chechen in his attack plan before that he does not commit it.
According to information from Mondehe and another young man, Ismail Gamaev, participated in the same Snapchat group as the terrorist and claim to have thought that Abdoullakh Anzorov was talking about a driving test, and not an attack, when they wished him “success“.
Louqmane Ingar, who appears free after spending a year in pre-trial detention until November 2021, specifies franceinfo, also planned to go to Afghanistan or Syria to join a terrorist group, according to the PNAT. The Paris Special Assize Court is expected to examine his case at the beginning of December. The trial is expected to last until December 20.
