suspended prison sentences and an adjustable sentence were handed down for six college students

On Friday December 8, the Paris court sentenced six college students tried for their involvement in the assassination of Samuel Paty to prison sentences. from 14 months suspended prison sentence to six months in prison. The prison sentence concerns the teenager who had named the professor as his executioner. It is convertible.

These sentences were ordered with regard “the seriousness of the facts”of the “personality” adolescents and their “evolution”and this, while the offenses are “perfectly established”said the children’s court in its judgment. The trial, which lasted two weeks, was held strictly behind closed doors given the young age of the defendants at the time of the events, between 13 and 15 years old. uAnother trial is planned for the eight adults involved at the end of 2024.

Samuel Paty, a 47-year-old history and geography teacher, was stabbed then beheaded in October 2020 near his college in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine (Yvelines) by Abdoullakh Anzorov, a Russian refugee of Chechen origin killed in the process by the police. The 18-year-old radicalized Islamist criticized the teacher for showing his students caricatures of Mohammed during a lesson on freedom of expression.