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Four men appeal convictions and 13- to 16-year sentences for fueling hatred that led to Samuel Paty's 2020 beheading, with trial ongoing until Feb 27.
- On Monday, an appeal trial opened in Paris at the Special Assize Court of Appeal for four men convicted over the 2020 beheading of Samuel Paty, scheduled until 27 February.
- A false classroom claim by a schoolgirl triggered an online campaign of abuse, widely shared by Brahim Chnina, the girl's father, and Abdelhakim Sefrioui, French-Moroccan Islamist activist, prosecutors say.
- Prosecutors say some defendants provided logistical support to attacker Abdoullakh Anzorov, while friends Naïm Boudaoud and Azim Epsirkhanov have appealed convictions for complicity.
- In December 2024, seven men and one woman were convicted, and some of the four defendants who did not appeal, prosecutors say, did not challenge their sentences.
- Paty had used Charlie Hebdo cartoons in class to discuss free expression, and the killing came weeks after the cartoons were republished, following an earlier attack that killed 12 people.
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In a text for Marianne, Mickaëlle Paty, sister of Samuel Paty, replies to Francis Vuillemin, a new lawyer of Abdelhakim Sefrioui. At the opening of the trial on appeal of the accomplices of his brother's assassin, he said about the professor of history-geography murdered after a campaign of defamation: "He was discriminating Muslim students. I will say it loud and clear."
Francis Vuillemin, who defends the preacher Abdelhakim Sefrioui, said on Monday that the teacher had asked "students to designate themselves according to their religion." Claims that repeat the rumour that led to the teacher's assassination in 2020.
Defence lawyer Francis Vuillemin argues that the murdered teacher has been "discriminatory" towards Muslim students for several years, and that this has led to indignation on the part of the civil parties.
According to Elisabeth Lévy, the Pantheon cannot become a means of giving us a good conscience when we have collectively failed. Bringing Samuel Paty into the Pantheon. While four alleged accomplices of his assassin are tried on appeal to leave this week, it is the demand of a collective of which his sister Gaëlle is part. To "say that the assassination of a teacher is not a different fact but an infringement of one of the foundations of the Rep…
The appeal of the assassination of Samuel Paty opened this Monday, January 26, with four accused in protest. Sentenced at first instance to sentences ranging from 13 to 16 years in prison, they deny their role...
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