Six weeks after the start of the trial, the prosecution requested sentences of up to sixteen years in prison against the eight defendants involved in the assassination of the professor on October 16, 2020.
The most severe punishment is required for complicity in terrorist assassination againstAzim Epsirkhanov, 23 years old. The prosecution demands that the imprisonment be accompanied by a two-thirds security sentence.
A sentence of 14 years in prison with two-thirds is required against Naim Boudaoud22 years old.
The two men fueled the jihadist sphere’s campaign against the professor.
The prosecution requested a sentence of twelve years of detention, accompanied by a two-thirds security period, against the preacher Abdelhakim Sefrioui.
The Moroccan Brahim Chnina risks ten years in prison, including a two-thirds security period, if the prosecution’s requisitions are followed by the court.
Islamist preacher Abdelhakim Sefrioui, aged 65, founder of the pro-Hamas association “Collectif Cheikh-Yassine” dissolved in October 2020, and Brahim Chnina, aged 52, are accused of having contributed “the production and dissemination of videos presenting false or distorted information intended to arouse a feeling of hatred” against Samuel Paty.
Brahim Chnina, the father of the schoolgirl who lied by accusing Samuel Paty of having discriminated against Muslim students during a lesson on freedom of expression, when she had not attended, and Samuel Paty did not had not discriminated against the students, admitted during the hearing that what he did was “irreparable and unforgivable”.
Prison sentences of one to five years were requested against members of the “jihadopsphere” revolving around the murderer Abdoullakh Anzorov: four 22-year-old men, Yusuf Cinar, Ismaël Gamaev, Louqmane Ingar, and the only woman involved in the Paty affair, Priscilla Mangel, 36 years old.
Abdoullakh Anzorov was linked to the HTC organization which overthrew the regime of Bashar al-Assad
The murderer of the history and geography professor was linked to the organization that overthrew the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTC). Mohammed al-Joulani, leader of this group, led the offensive in Syria which led to the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime on the night of Saturday December 7 to Sunday December 8.
Abdoullakh Anzorov, Ismaël Gamaev and Louqmane Ingar were linked to at least one of its members Farrouk Faizimtov. The latter, 24 years old at the time of the assassination of Samuel Paty, carried out propaganda activities from Idlib, in Syria, the birthplace of HTC.
Faizimtov is suspected of having published on Instagram on September 13, 2020, a month before the assassination, a video targeting France after the broadcast of a caricature of the prophet. On the day of the beheading, October 16, Anzarov spoke with him and sent him a photo. He wrote laudatory remarks on Snapchat about HTC which he described as being the “best current group to join” to lead “the real Jihad”.
Anzarov was quickly shot dead by police officers who sought to neutralize him just after the assassination of Samuel Paty.
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