The trial for the assassination of Samuel Paty began on November 4 before the special assize court of Paris.
This Wednesday, the court will question Azim Epsirkhanov, one of the two defendants prosecuted for complicity in a terrorist assassination.
Like seven others of the eight accused, he did not admit the facts with which he is accused. This Wednesday, on the twelfth day of the trial for the assassination of Samuel Paty, the court will question Azim Epsirkhanov. He is one of the two accused, with Naïm Boudaoud, to be prosecuted for complicity in terrorist assassination, facts for which both risk life imprisonment.
This 23-year-old Russian of Chechen origin arrived in France in December 2010. He was complicit, according to the prosecution, in the assassination of Samuel Paty “by actively helping and accompanying” son ami “longstanding” Abdoullakh Anzorov, met at college in 2013“in the research and purchase of weapons”.
During the hearing, Azim Epsirkhanov admitted to having received the sum of 800 euros from Anzorov to get him a firearm urgently, which he failed to do.
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Thursday, it is Naïm Boudaoud, who must be questioned by the court. The trial for the assassination of Samuel Paty must be held until December 20.
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