DECRYPTION – Eight defendants will be tried from Monday until December 20, including two for complicity in terrorist assassination and the other six for criminal terrorist association. At the center of the debates: the escalation which, in ten days, led to the decapitation of a professor.
Why and how, on a Friday in October 2020, « between 16 h 51 min 45 s and 16 h 55 », was a teacher, alone in the face of Islamism and betrayed by schoolchildren, beheaded by a jihadist some 300 meters from the school where he guided his students on the paths of knowledge? Questions at the heart of the trial which opens this Monday before the specially composed Assize Court. In their staggering and intolerable enormity, they will still arise, undoubtedly forever, at the end of the debates.
Tried until December 20, eight people are accused of being involved in the assassination of Samuel Paty, history and geography teacher at the Bois-d'Aulne college, in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, in Yvelines, on Friday October 16, 2020. A college which, four years after the events, has just taken the name of its teacher, father of a 5-year-old boy, murdered a month after celebrating his 47the birthday
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