The trial for the assassination of Samuel Paty opened on November 4, 2024 before the Special Assize Court of Paris.
Eight people are on trial for their involvement to varying degrees in the deadly project of terrorist Abdoullakh Anzorov.
This Thursday, Naïm Boudaoud, one of the two defendants prosecuted for complicity in a terrorist assassination, is questioned about the facts.
Two of them face life imprisonment for complicity in terrorist assassination. After Azim Epsirkhanov, a 23-year-old Chechen Russian who declared on Wednesday that he did not feel “responsible” what could his friend have done “Abdoullakh Anzorov” On October 16, 2020, it is Naïm Boudaoud, a 22-year-old Frenchman, who is questioned this Thursday about the facts before the special Assize Court of Paris at the trial of the assassination of Samuel Paty.
Described by the prosecution as “particularly vulnerable” et “influenceable”et “without any visible sign of violent radicalization”, he met Azim Epsirkhanov and Abdoullakh Anzorov, “multiplying services” to one or the other.
The day before the attack, in the company of his co-accused, he took Abdoullakh Anzorov to a cutlery in Rouen to purchase a knife corresponding to the one found near his body. On the day of the assassination, Naïm Boudaoud accompanied Anzorov to a store in Cergy (Val-d’Oise) to purchase Airsoft pistols and steel balls.
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The trial is scheduled to continue until December 20. The other accused will be questioned in the coming weeks.
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