After more than a month of trial, the verdict concerning the assassination of Samuel Paty is expected this Friday, December 20 around 8 p.m.
In the dock, eight people await the verdict in the case of the assassination of Samuel Paty. He will be handed down this Friday, December 20 in the evening, around 8 p.m., after more than a month of trial.
Mickaëlle Paty, her sister, fears being “comforted” in her “fears”, because she believes that the requisitions are too low. “If what is proposed is confirmed this evening, I will consider that we have been duped,” she said, thus asking to be interested in “other responsibilities” in the death of her brother, namely those “of the State , from the administration, from some of the colleagues (of Samuel Paty) perhaps,” she defended on BFMTV’s microphone.
“All in all, it is not fair that we can launch procedures, (…) there must be no more acting out,” she emphasizes, asking for “sanctions really up to par”.
Requisitions ranging between 18 months and 16 years in prison
Seven men and a woman have been involved in various ways since October 16, 2020, the day this history and geography professor was shot dead by a Chechen Islamist. The demands of the national prosecutor’s office were announced this Monday. The required sentences range from 18 months in prison to 16 years of criminal imprisonment.
Azim Epsirkhanov, a 23-year-old Russian of Chechen origin, risks the highest sentence because he is being tried for complicity in terrorist assassination and the prosecution has asked the court to reclassify him as a terrorist criminal association.
“Terrorism, my whole being rejects it,” defended Islamist preacher Abdelhakim Sefrioui, 65, at the origin, with Brahim Chnina, a 52-year-old Moroccan, of “the hate campaign” against Samuel Paty. “I have nothing to do with this crime unworthy of all humanity,” said the preacher.
“I regret, I regret, I regret,” lamented Brahim Chnina, also prosecuted for Criminal Terrorist Association. “I am not a terrorist. I hate terrorists. I hate them… My life is to help,” he said.