The national anti-terrorism prosecution on Monday, December 16, requested sentences ranging from one year in prison to 16 years of criminal imprisonment against the eight accused involved, to varying degrees, in the assassination of professor Samuel Paty on October 16, 2020. The highest sentence was requested against the Russian of Chechen origin Azim Epsirkhanov, 23, tried for complicity in terrorist assassination, but for which. the prosecution asked the court to reclassify the proceedings as a terrorist criminal association.
This sentence of 16 years' imprisonment must be accompanied by a two-thirds security period, said the prosecution, which on the other hand asked the court to set aside the obligation to leave French territory (OQTF) due to the situation in Russia, a mandatory sentence for foreigners convicted in terrorism cases.
Attorney General Marine Valentin requested a sentence of 14 years' imprisonment, with a two-thirds security period, against Naïm Boudaoud, 22, who was also being prosecuted for complicity in murder, an offense that the prosecution wants see reclassified for him also as a terrorist criminal association.
The prosecution requested 12 years of criminal imprisonment, with a two-thirds security period, against the Islamist preacher Abdelhakim Sefrioui and 10 years of criminal imprisonment, with a two-thirds security period, against the Moroccan Brahim Chnina . The magistrates also requested an additional sentence of exclusion from French territory (ITF) against Mr. Chnina, of Moroccan origin. The two men, prosecuted for terrorist conspiracy, are at the origin of the hate campaign on social networks against Samuel Paty, a professor of history and geography who was beheaded upon leaving the college where he taught by Abdoullakh Anzorov, a young 18-year-old Chechen radical Islamist shot dead by police shortly after the incident.
Sentences ranging from one year to five years including 18 months suspended were requested against the four accused presented by the prosecution as members of the “jihadosphere” gravitating around Abdoullakh Anzorov on social networks.
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