To see his baby face, his short figure of a good child wrapped in a beige raincoat and his hands wriggling on the lectern of the bar of the special assize court of Paris, we would give him the good Lord without confession. But Ismaël Gamaev wants to confess, precisely: yes, he was “very radicalized”yes, he had a “unhealthy vision of Islam”. And he repents of it today, just as radically: “I abandoned everything that was linked to religionhe assures. I can't even believe in God anymore…”
The accused in the trial for the assassination of Samuel Paty can be classified into three groups. The first, made up of two friends of the killer, Naïm Boudaoud and Azim Epsirkhanov, who face the heaviest sentence for “complicity in terrorist assassination”, was examined at the start of the trial. Then the court looked at the second duo, those responsible for the hate campaign which targeted the professor: Brahim Chnina and Abdelhakim Sefrioui. The last group, called “the jihadosphere”brings together four radicalized defendants who were in contact with the terrorist on social networks.
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Ismaël Gamaev, 22 years old, is the first member of the “ jihadosphere » to have been questioned on the merits, Tuesday December 10. Dismissed for terrorist criminal association, he is accused of having joined, with another young co-accused, Ingar Louqmane, and the assassin of Samuel Paty, Abdoullakh Anzorov, a discussion group on Snapchat called “medical students” , in which there was a lot of talk about jihad. A few minutes after the attack, the killer published a photo of the decapitated head of Samuel Paty.
“I am extremely ashamed”
But before getting to the point, Ismaël Gamaev wants to explain to the court the reasons for his lightning radicalization and his deradicalization, which was just as rapid to hear. The young man appears free after two years of pre-trial detention. Since his release from prison, he has passed his baccalaureate and embarked on economics and management studies. “There are a lot of things I've done on social media that I'm extremely ashamed ofhe begins. I can tell you how I became radicalized, if you want…”
– « Go for it “commits the president, Franck Zientara.
It is rare, during a terrorist hearing, for an accused to explain so clearly the ingredients that made him fall into radical Islam. Ismaël Gamaev is, above all, the first, at this trial, to recognize the essence of the facts with which he is accused.
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