LIVE – Assassination of Samuel Paty: justice hears the two schoolchildren who named the professor as the terrorist

Two weeks after the start of the trial for the assassination of Samuel Paty before the special assize court of Paris, where eight adults including a woman are on trial, they are two former students of the Bois d'Aulne college in Conflans-Sainte- Honorine where the history-geography teacher worked who must be heard this Monday.

The two schoolchildren, then minors, designated the teacher to the terrorist Abdoullakh Anzorov after the latter was dropped off on Friday October 16, 2020 by his friend Naïm Boudaoud, today accused in the box. The two minors then recovered more than 300 euros from the 18-year-old Chechen for this service.

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In December 2023, six teenagers, including a young girl and the two who must be heard this Monday, appeared behind closed doors at the end of 2023 before the Paris children's court, for their role in the assassination of Samuel Paty. They were then between 13 and 15 years old. Five of these schoolchildren had guided the young jihadist Abdoullakh Anzorov towards his victim for payment.

Tried for criminal conspiracy with a view to preparing aggravated violence, these five young people were sentenced to sentences ranging from 14 months in prison with suspended probation (that is to say accompanied by a series of obligations, in particular training and monitoring by child professionals) to two years of detention, including six months in prison.

The heaviest sentence, two years in prison including six months under an electronic bracelet, was handed down against the ex-college student who had communicated to the attacker the physical and clothing description of the professor and the journey he took. he usually borrowed.

This teenager had “recruited other college students to nominate” the teacher, organized the “surveillance” near the college “for several hours” and finally “designated Samuel Paty upon leaving college”, had detailed the children's court.

Zohra, the student at the origin of the controversy

The only young girl to appear before the court, Zohra*, the teenager who had wrongly claimed that Samuel Paty had asked Muslim students to report and leave the class before showing the caricatures of Mohammed while in in reality, she had not attended this course, was sentenced to 18 months of probation for slanderous denunciation.

The court denounced “the existence of a persistent lie” that the teenager has “recognized” and who had been “materialized” by filing a complaint against Samuel Paty. She was 13 years old at the time of the incident.

This lie was at the origin of a violent campaign fueled on social networks by his father, Brahim Chnina and by an Islamist activist, Abdelhakim Sefrioui, author of videos which had drawn attention to the professor. The two have been on trial for two weeks alongside six co-defendants before the special assize court in Paris until December 20.

*First names have been changed