2023-12-09 06:30:04
It took a voice to break the confidentiality of two weeks of closed-door hearings. It was that of the judge of the Paris children’s court who, in an intervention lasting barely twenty minutes, announced the convictions of the six ex-college students called to the bar, Friday December 8. The police force, the solemn silence, the hedge of cameras: this hearing is not that of a trial “for children” like another.
The six teenagers, who arrived in the room with their faces hidden behind surgical masks, hoods or scarves, appear for their involvement in the assassination of Samuel Paty, stabbed then beheaded on October 16, 2020, near the Bois-d’ college Aulne, in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine (Yvelines), where he taught history and geography. They were then between 13 and 15 years old.
Five of them were accused of the same offense – that of“criminal association with a view to preparing aggravated violence”. They were notably accused of having, on the day of the tragedy, monitored the surroundings of the college and facilitated the access of the killer, Abdoullakh Anzorov, to his target.
” You understood ? »
The teenager who first met this young terrorist of Chechen origin, before recruiting his acolytes, is sentenced to a prison sentence of two years, including six months, fitted with an electronic bracelet. The sentences of the four other young boys range from fourteen to twenty months with suspended probation (along with a series of obligations, in particular training, and monitoring by child professionals).
The president called the teenagers to the stand one by one to detail their sentences, generally in accordance with the requirements of the anti-terrorism prosecution. ” You understood ? »she asked everyone. « Oui », they all replied, before leaving, heads bowed, to sit on the bench, supported by the placid presence of their families, who had come in large numbers.
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The role of the sixth defendant – the youngest in the group – came even earlier in the case. According to her, the teacher – whose course she had not taken – had shown caricatures of Mohammed after asking the Muslim students to leave the class. This unfounded rumor focused attention on this professor, who became a target, particularly on social networks. Emphasizing “the existence of a persistent lie” that the teenager has ” recognized “, and who had been “materialized” by filing a complaint against Samuel Paty, the court sentenced her to eighteen months of probation for “ slanderous denunciation ».
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