At the trial of the assassination of Samuel Paty, Abdelhakim Sefrioui or the chronicle of a death foretold

PTo begin this fourth week of hearing, the Paris Special Assize Court looked into the activist career of the accused Abdelhakim Sefrioui, his methods of action and communication, then his involvement in the campaign of hatred which will lead, eight days after it began, to the beheading of Samuel Paty. It is a trajectory made up of protests, insults, violence and abuse of power, which reminded me of another affair to which I devoted a book^* and a scenario: the assassination of Ilan Halimi.

In 2006, this young 23-year-old Parisian was kidnapped, kidnapped, tortured for twenty-four days, then left for dead because he was Jewish and the mastermind of the “barbarian gang” thought that Jews were rich; and if however this one does not…