Sentences of up to 16 years in prison in the trial over the beheading of French professor Samuel Paty

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The perpetrator of the murder, Abdoullakh Anzorov, 18, was killed by police at the time of arrest.

The Paris court has sentenced the eight people accused of complicity in the murder of French teacher Samuel Paty, beheaded near the high school where he worked on the outskirts of Paris, in 2020 to sentences of up to 16 years for the two accomplices. to crime.

The perpetrator of the murder, Abdoullakh Anzorov, 18, was killed by police at the time of arrest.

In addition to the two accused of complicity in the crime, the judges also convicted the father of one of Paty’s students and a preacher who organized a campaign on social networks against the teacher, who had shown his students caricatures during a course on freedom of expression of the Prophet Mohammed published by the satirical weekly ‘Charlie Hebdo’.

The sentences were lighter for other defendants, who were charged with provoking terrorism by spreading Islamist messages through social networks and having contact with Anzorov.

Source: EITB

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