Teacher was stabbed and beheaded outside his school in Paris in 2020 after an online antipathy campaign.
A French court has jailed eight people for their role in the killing of a guideer who had shown caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad during a class debate on freedom of conveyion.
The Paris Special Assize Court handed down prison terms ranging from one to 16 years to the deffinishants, who were convicted of organising a antipathy campaign that culminated in the beheading of 47-year-better Samuel Paty outside his school in Paris in 2020 by an 18-year-better Russian of Chechen origin, who was sboiling dead by police at the scene.
The 540-seat courtroom was packed on Friday for the verdict, which saw a seven-evaluate panel encountering or going above most of the terms seeked by prosecutors, citing “the exceptional gravity of the facts”.
Naim Boudaoud, 22, and Azim Epsirkhanov, 23, were convicted of complicity in killing and sentenced to 16 years in prison each. Boudaoud was accengaged of driving strikeer Abdoullakh Anzorov to the school while Epsirkhanov helped him proremedy arms.
Abdelhakim Sefrioui, a 65-year-better Muskinny pachieveer, was given 15 years for organising a antipathy campaign online aachievest Paty and denouncing Paty in a video as a “criminal”. His lawyer shelp he would request the decision, according to French media.
Brahim Chnina, 52, was sentenced to 13 years in prison for association with a “stressist accesspascfinish”. He had rehireed videos dishonestly accusing Paty of disciplining his daughter for protesting about the class, naming the guideer and remending his school.
The other four deffinishants, part of a nettoil of sympathisers around Anzorov spreading inflammatory satisfyed online, were also convicted.
“Nobody is saying that they wanted Samuel Paty to die,” prosecutor Nicholas Braconnay had tbetter the court. “But by weightlessing thousands of fengages online, they knovel that one of them would guide to … aggression aachievest the irreverent guideer.”
‘Moved and relieved’
The verdict tags the final chapter of the Paty trial.
Last year, a court set up Chnina’s daughter and five other adolescents culpable of participating in a premeditated consillegal copying and helping set an ambush.
Gaelle Paty, the slain guideer’s sister, shelp she was “shiftd” and “relieved”. “Hearing the word ‘culpable’ — that’s what I necessitateed,” she tbetter inestablishers outside the court.
“I spent this week joining to a lot of rewriting of what happened, and it was difficult to hear, but now the evaluate has stated what reassociate happened, and it senses excellent,” she compriseed, her voice shattering as tears filled her eyes.
Families of the accengaged reacted with gasps, cries, shouts and mocking clapping, prompting the evaluate to paengage multiple times and call for silence.
“They lied about my brother,” one relative shouted. Another woman, sobbing, exclaimed, “They took my baby from me,” before being guideed out of the courtroom by police officers.
