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Thursday, November 7 afternoon, the specially composed Assize Court tried to understand the personality of the Islamist activist accused of having delivered Samuel Paty to popular vindictiveness and galvanized the jihadosphere on social networks.
Can we paint a portrait of Islamist activist Abdelhakim Sefrioui without mentioning religion or activism? Even more complicated: can we do it without the presence of an expert capable of confirming or denying our fantasies? In any case, this is the exercise that the specially composed Assize Court faced on the fourth day of the trial for the assassination of Samuel Paty, Thursday, November 7, during the personality interrogation of Abdelhakim Sefrioui. Accused of having participated in the hate campaign against the professor on social networks, in particular by describing him as “thug”, the 65-year-old man appears for terrorist criminal association. He faces thirty years of criminal imprisonment.
From the traditional question “do you recognize the facts?” asked by President Franck Zientara as a preamble to his interrogation, Abdelhakim Sefrioui, glasses on the end of his nose, launches himself with confidence
