2023-05-16 14:50:19
The history and geography teacher was beheaded by an Islamist terrorist for showing a caricature of Muhammad in his class on October 16, 2020 in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine.
By Le Figaro with AFP
Published update
The assassination of the professor Samuel Pattywhich had stunned France and shocked the world, will be the subject of two trials: the anti-terrorism magistrates ordered Tuesday, May 16, trials at the assizes for eight adults and before the juvenile court for six adolescents.
On October 16, 2020, the 47-year-old history and geography teacher was stabbed and then beheaded near his college in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine (Yvelines) by Abdoullakh Anzorov, a Russian refugee of Chechen origin. This radicalized Islamist was shot dead by the police.
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The 18-year-old accused the teacher of having shown in class, during a lesson on freedom of expression, caricatures of Muhammad. In an audio message in Russian, he had claimed his gesture, congratulating himself on having “avenged the Prophet».
This attack takes place in a particular context, “while the trial of the January 2015 attacks committed in particular within the premises of Charlie Hebdo (…) and in the context of very high terrorist threats in France“, Underline the investigating judges in the indictment order to which AFP had access on Tuesday.
“Revenge for an Offense”
Two other attacks took place during this period, at the beginning of September in front of the former premises of Charlie Hebdo in Paris and at the end of October at the basilica in Nice. For the magistrates, Abdoullakh “Anzorov, already rooted in violence from a young age in the light of the procedures highlighted, became strongly radicalized in the summer of 2020».
At the time of his act, the assailant was “driven by conviction“that Samuel Paty had”imposed on the sight of his young students (…) at least one of the caricatures of the Prophet published by the newspaper Charlie Hebdo“. For the judges, themobile“of the assailant was thus”revenge for an offense he felt had been done to his Prophet, which deserved a death sentence of the professor, desired by his god and his religion».
Complicity in terrorist assassination
For this act which had caused a huge stir in France and abroad, the investigating magistrates ask that the heaviest offence, complicity in terrorist assassination, be retained for two friends of Anzorov, Azim Epsirkhanov and Naïm Boudaoud , who had accompanied him to buy weapons. The second had also transported it to the college of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine.
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Brahim Chnina, father of the schoolgirl at the origin of the controversy for having lied about the content of a course which she had not attended, and the sulphurous Islamist activist Abdelhakim Sefrioui, authors of videos on social networks which had stirred up the controversy, had been indicted for complicity in assassination, just like Priscilla Mangel, a convert to Islam linked on Twitter with the assassin the days preceding the attack.
A separate trial
For these three people, as for three other adults implicated to varying degrees, the anti-terrorism judges are asking for a trial at the assizes but for a less serious offense, criminal terrorist criminal association, according to the order.
The magistrates also ordered a separate trial before the juvenile court for five teenagers, aged fourteen and fifteen at the time of the events, accused in particular of having carried out surveillance around the college and of having appointed Samuel Paty to the ‘assailant. They will have to appear for association of criminals in order to prepare aggravated violence, an offense, whereas they were initially also targeted by the offense of complicity in terrorist assassination.
Slanderous denunciation
These magistrates also order that the daughter of Brahim Chnina also appear before the juvenile court, for slanderous denunciation. In their order, the magistrates emphasize that the judicial inquiry “came up against the deletion and erasure by all of the defendants of their data and social network applications (…) immediately after the commission of the facts“. To date, six of the eight adults involved in the case are still in pre-trial detention.
Prior to his assassination, the professor had felt “deep concern (…) in the face of the scale and aggressiveness of the controversywhich targeted him, according to an end-of-investigation summary report. Contacted on Tuesday, the lawyers for the family of Samuel Paty did not react immediately. Part of the family filed a complaint against the Ministries of the Interior and National Education, accused of not having taken sufficient account of the danger. A separate investigation has been open in Paris since April 2022.
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