2023-12-08 21:56:04
Three years after the assassination of history and geography professor Samuel Paty, stabbed then beheaded on October 16, 2020 as he left his college in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine (Yvelines) by a young jihadist, sentences of fourteen months in prison suspended sentence of six months in prison – placed under an electronic bracelet – were handed down on Friday December 8 in Paris.
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The sentences handed down against the six ex-college students tried for their involvement in the assassination of the professor are ordered in light of “the seriousness of the facts”of their ” personality ” et ” evolution “and while the offenses are “perfectly established”, declared the children’s court in its judgment, read in open court after two weeks of trial. This was held strictly behind closed doors given their young age at the time of the events – between 13 and 15 years old.
The president called the teenagers, now aged 16 to 18 years old, to the stand one by one to detail their convictions, generally in accordance with the requirements of the anti-terrorism prosecution. ” You understood ? »she asked everyone.
“A bad signal” for those close to Samuel Paty
Leaving the room, the lawyers of Samuel Paty’s relatives strongly criticized the sanctions “not up to the drama” and who send “a bad signal”as the lawyer for the professor’s parents and one of his sisters said, describing their ” anger “, ” disappointment “ et ” incomprehension “.
“A man beheaded in a street is not nothing”et “I do not see this unanimous start of the judicial institution, I do not see this revolt, this stop”declared Ms. Virginie Le Roy, very moved.
In defense, Me Antoine Ory said “relief despite the horror of the facts”. As for the punishment, “she’s fair”even if she “will never be a sentence commensurate with the infinite and eternal suffering of the civil parties”.
“You communicated to the assailant the physical and clothing description” of the professor
Five of the teenagers, aged 14 and 15, were on trial for conspiracy to commit aggravated violence. They are accused of having monitored the surroundings of the college and designated Mr. Paty as the attacker, for remuneration. And this “while you were aware of the criticisms made”to college “and on social networks” against Samuel Paty, the president told them.
The heaviest sentence, two years in prison including six months under an electronic bracelet, was handed down against the former schoolboy approached by the attacker Abdouallakh Anzorov. “You communicated to the assailant the physical and clothing description” of the teacher and his “route usually taken”, “you stayed for several hours” with him and have “favored” on “concealment”the court told him.
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“You 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”.
The four other young people were sentenced to sentences ranging from fourteen months with suspended probation (that is to say accompanied by a series of obligations, in particular to follow education or training and to be followed by professionals of childhood) to eighteen months with probationary suspension.
“Persistent lie”
A sixth teenager, aged 13 at the time of the events, was sentenced to eighteen months’ probation for slanderous denunciation. This schoolgirl had wrongly claimed that Mr. Paty had asked the Muslim students in the class to report and leave before showing the caricatures of Mohammed. She hadn’t actually attended this class. The court emphasized before her “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” et “don’t forgive yourself for this lie”, “she will try to move forward (…)live with this permanent guilt which for once will not pass through it but inhabit it”reacted his lawyer Mbeko Tabula.
His 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. They will be tried in a second trial with six other adults, before the special assize court in Paris at the end of 2024.
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