What sentences for the eight accused tried for their supposed involvement in the assassination of Professor Samuel Paty? The national anti-terrorism prosecutor’s office makes its submissions on Monday, December 16, before the special assize court in Paris, where their trial has been held for seven weeks. The two advocates general will speak when the hearing resumes, from 10 a.m. During the proceedings, only one accused admitted his guilt. All the others denied their responsibility in the attack which targeted the history and geography teacher, beheaded on October 16, 2020 by Abdoullakh Anzorov. This young radical Islamist from Chechnya was killed immediately by the police. Follow our live stream.
A verdict expected at the end of the week. The decision of the special Paris Assize Court is expected Thursday or Friday, after the defense’s pleadings and the last words of the accused. Two of them, Azim Epsirkhanov and Naïm Boudaoud, dismissed for complicity in murder, face life imprisonment. The magistrates will also have to rule, for these two men as for the six other accused, on the criminal terrorist association, which makes them incur a sentence of thirty years of criminal imprisonment.
An apology presented by the schoolgirl who had lied. A teenager said that the history and geography teacher had shown caricatures of Mohammed deemed obscene in a class which she had not, in fact, attended. Sentenced to eighteen months in prison for slanderous denunciation, in December 2023, during the trial devoted to the minors tried in this case, she apologized to the family of Samuel Paty when she came to testify at the bar for her father, in the dock. For his part, Brahim Chnina regretted “infinitely” to have “believed his daughter 100%”, while claiming that it is not “not a terrorist”.
A sister of Samuel Paty not convinced. “How do you accept an apology from someone who doesn’t show sincerity in what they say?”questioned, on November 26, the sister of Samuel Paty in front of the franceinfo camera, “angry with the girl” what happened to the schoolgirl. She believes that the teenager “made no way towards the truth.” No more than his father, who “did not understand his share of responsibility and his actions”denounced Gaëlle Paty on December 2 about Brahim Chnina.
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