Since Monday November 4, seven men and one woman have been tried before the special assize court in Paris.
They are accused of having participated to varying degrees in the assassination of Samuel Paty.
This Friday, the forensic doctors and the civil parties must be heard.
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The trial of the assassination of Samuel Paty
It’s a day that promises to be filled with sadness, pain, and emotions. This Friday, November 8, on the fifth day of the trial for the assassination of Samuel Paty, the special assize court of Paris must hear in the morning two forensic doctors who carried out the autopsy of the professor’s body.
Three municipal police officers, the first to intervene after the history and geography teacher was killed and while the terrorist had not yet been neutralized, must then give the story of this terrible day.
Finally, during the afternoon, members of Samuel Paty’s family will take the stand: his mother, his ex-partner, his two sisters and his nieces. The father of Samuel Paty, who “I had an accident” a few days ago according to his lawyer Me Le Roy, will not be able to be heard.
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The trial is then scheduled to continue for six weeks. At the start of next week, it is the members of the national education system who will take the stand. Among them, the principal of the Bois d’Aulne college in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, colleagues of Samuel Paty, including two who had not supported the professor after his course on freedom of expression in which he had shown caricatures of the prophet Mohammed taken from Charlie Hebdo.
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