the national anti-terrorist prosecutor’s office calls for 14 people to be tried

The National Anti-Terrorist Prosecutor’s Office (Pnat) requests, on Friday April 7, that fourteen people be tried after the assassination on October 16, 2020 of Samuel Paty, professor of history and geography beheaded by a radicalized Islamist, franceinfo learned from a source familiar with the matter. . The Pnat requests that the most serious offence, “complicity in terrorist assassination”, be retained only for two friends of the assailant Abdoullakh Anzorov. The anti-terrorist prosecutor’s office also requires the assizes for six other adults for “terrorist criminal association”.

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Of these fourteen people, eight are adults, according to information from franceinfo. Only two will therefore be tried for “complicity in murder”, whereas until then, ten were indicted for this count. The anti-terrorist prosecution requires that these two people be tried, one for having bought the weapon and having led the terrorist to the scene, the second for having sought the weapon.

Among the eight adults, the Pnat therefore requests that six be tried for “terrorist criminal association”, including Brahim Chnina, the father of the excluded schoolgirl, who had called to mobilize against the teacher in a video posted on social networks . The prosecution also requests that six minors be tried, five for “criminal association”, an offense, and one for “slanderous denunciation”.

Ten indicted for “complicity in terrorist assassination”

In this case, 14 people were previously indicted, including 10 for “complicity in terrorist assassination”, three for “criminal terrorist association” and one for “slanderous denunciation”. Six of them are in pre-trial detention.

On October 16, 2020, 47-year-old history and geography professor Samuel Paty was stabbed and then beheaded near his college in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine (Yvelines), by Abdoullakh Anzorov, a Russian refugee of Chechen origin, killed shortly afterwards by the police. The 18-year-old man, radicalized, accused him of having shown caricatures of Muhammad in class. In an audio message in Russian, he had claimed his gesture, congratulating himself on having “avenge the prophet”.