This 31-year-old man, who lives in Béziers (Hérault), had also made racist comments on the internet and had already been sentenced for similar acts committed in October 2020.
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A 31-year-old man was sentenced, Friday, January 7, to four years in prison for having posted on a social network a photograph of the decapitated head of Samuel Paty, as well as for having made racist remarks on the internet, reports the prosecution from Béziers (Hérault). He had already been convicted of similar acts committed in October 2020.
The beheading of the 47-year-old teacher on October 16, 2020 near his college in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine (Yvelines) by Abdoullakh Anzorov, a radicalized young man who accused him of having shown caricatures of Muhammad to his students, had aroused considerable emotion.
The individual, who had lived in Béziers since his release from prison last March, had also called on the internet to “purge”, “ratify” and “burn” his city, in which he considered himself “the only fucking white”. He also made anti-Semitic remarks against the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron.
Arrested on Wednesday by the territorial directorate of the Montpellier judicial police and placed in pre-trial detention, he did not regret any of his words, defining himself as a “ethno-sadistic” Who “not ashamed to be white”.
The correctional court of Béziers sentenced him in immediate appearance to three years of imprisonment and one year of revocation of a previous probationary suspension, as well as to a socio-judicial follow-up for three years accompanied by two additional years of imprisonment. in the event of non-compliance with its obligations. At the hearing, the prosecution requested five years’ imprisonment.
He was tried in particular for “public provocation to commit a crime”, “apologia for an act of terrorism”, and “public provocation to hatred or violence because of origin, ethnicity, nation, country. race or religion “.