A young woman, aged 17 at the time of the murder of Samuel Paty, was sentenced on Friday to three and a half years in prison, including 18 months suspended by the Paris Children’s Court for “terrorist criminal association”. Currently detained, the accused is also subject to an obligation of care.
She had relayed the terrorist’s claim message and was in contact with one of the friends of the assassin of the history-geography professor from Conflans-Sainte-Honorine (Yvelines), himself indicted in this case. On his phone, investigators found images of Islamic State fighters, and searches for weapons, shooting and martyrs. Indicted and placed under judicial control, the young girl had held comments considered to be those of a radicalized person. She had also expressed her desire to go to Turkey or Chechnya.
Justice has decided to “separate” his case from the others, in a file that mixes minors and adults and whose investigation was closed by the investigating judges at the end of September. The young girl, who is not implicated for “complicity”, said she condemned the assassination of the professor while in police custody.