Six minors involved in the 2020 killing of Professor Samuel Paty by a jihadist will be tried in the children’s court in Paris from November 27 to December 8, a judicial source said on Monday.
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The hearing will take place behind closed doors.
Five of them are charged with conspiracy to commit serious violence. They are accused of monitoring the area around the university and of having the teacher assist the attacker for a fee.
A sixth teenager, who was thirteen at the time of the events, is in turn convicted of defamatory denunciation after admitting a lie about the contents of a Samuel Paty course that she had not actually attended.
She said during that class, the teacher asked the Muslim students to signal and walk out before showing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.
This lie was the origin of the violent campaign that the father of this student, Brahim Chnina, and the Islamist activist Abdelhakim Sefrioui fueled on social networks and of which the attacker Abdoullakh Anzorov was aware.
MM. Chnina and Sefrioui, for their part, will later be charged with criminal terrorist organization before the assizes.
On October 16, 2020, the 47-year-old history and geography teacher was stabbed and then beheaded near his college in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine (suburb of Paris) by Abdoullakh Anzorov, a Russian refugee of Chechen origin.
The radicalized Islamist was immediately shot dead by the police.
In an audio message in Russian, he confessed to his crime and congratulated himself on having “avenged the prophet.”
In this case, which has caused great excitement in France and abroad, six other people are also being tried: two friends of the attacker for complicity in a terrorist attack and four others for criminal terrorist organization.