France will try fourteen people for beheading Professor Samuel Paty

fourteen peopleincluding six minors, they will be judged in France because of his alleged complicity in the murder of samuel paty, a teacher who was beheaded by a jihadist terrorist in October 2020 after teaching his students controversial cartoons of Muhammad. This decision was made by investigative judges following a request from the State Counter-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office, which requested the prosecution of all suspects for this terrorist attack that shocked the country.

After the crime, the killer, Abdullah Aznorov, was killed by the police in the suburb of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, on the outskirts of Paris, where this French teacher taught at a high school. Aznorov, an 18-year-old Russian refugee of Chechen origin, was not Paty’s student or studied at the center. He heard about the professor on social networks.

Eight adults and six minors will sit on the dock. Two adults will stand trial complicity in murder in connection with a terrorist act, and the other six for association of criminals for terrorist purposes in order to prepare crimes that affect people. Among them are two friends of the killer, the father of the student Paty’s and an Islamic preacher.

Meanwhile, six teenagers will be prosecuted in juvenile court for allegedly conducting surveillance outside the center and telling Aznorov who Samuel Paty was in exchange for money. Namely, five minors who were between 14 and 15 years old at the time of committing the crime will be tried for association of criminals for the preparation of a criminal offense for which a sentence of at least 5 years in prison is foreseen, and another adolescent will sit on the dock. accused of slanderous denunciation.

This last student lied to her father, Brahim Chnina. He told him that he was in the classroom when Samuel Paty showed the students caricatures of Muhammad published by a satirical magazine. charlie hebdo in the class on freedom of expression. The father of the minor Muslim girl complained and launched a campaign on social networks against the teacher, whose head Aznorov eventually beheaded while leaving the center.