The eight defendants in the Samuel Paty trial were sentenced to sentences ranging from three years in prison to 16 years in prison.
Published on 20/12/2024 22:05
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“The Court told me the story it retained, the sequence of facts, that’s what makes the truth for me and for everyone, for all of France”declared Friday, December 20 Gaëlle Paty, one of Samuel Paty's sisters, after the conviction of the accused.
All eight defendants in the Samuel Paty trial were found guilty. The two friends of the assassin of Professor Samuel Paty, Naïm Boudaoud and Azim Epsirkhanov were notably sentenced to 16 years of criminal imprisonment for complicity in assassination. The two authors of the hate campaign against the professor, Brahim Chnina and Abdelhakim Sefrioui, were for their part found guilty of terrorist conspiracy and sentenced respectively to 13 and 15 years of criminal imprisonment.
“I am moved,” confides Gaëlle Paty. “I'm relieved to hear these words 'guilty', that's what I needed, that's what I wanted to hear”she explains, very moved. She says she spent seven weeks, the time of the trial, “hearing a lot of rewrites of what happened, we did a lot of fiction for seven weeks and it was hard to hear”. “There, there the court said what had happened and what everyone had done, that they were guilty and that felt good”she adds.
“It does something, it was a goal awaited for four years but does it fix it?”she questions before answering: “I wouldn't say that. On the other hand, it's something I can rely on to move forward.” “Obviously we always wait for more than one trialshe adds, but it will be a point of support so that we continue to work so that the school promotes our values of living together.”
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