the anti-terrorist prosecution requests that fourteen people be tried

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

For this act which had caused a huge stir in France and abroad, the Pnat is asking for a trial at the assizes and that the most serious offense be retained, complicity in terrorist assassination, only for two friends of the assailant.

Azim E. and Naïm B. accompanied him to buy a knife. The second had gone with him to the college of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine.

Brahim Chnina, father of a schoolgirl targeted by an exclusion for indiscipline and who claimed to have attended the course, and the sulphurous Islamist activist Abdelhakim Sefrioui, authors of videos on social networks which had fueled the controversy, had been indicted for complicity , just like Priscilla M., a 30-year-old convert to Islam, linked on Twitter with the assassin in the days preceding the attack.

For these three people, as for three other adults, the Pnat finally requests a trial, also at the assizes, for criminal terrorist association, according to the source close to the file.

The referral of five college students to the juvenile court requested

The public prosecutor is also asking for a trial in juvenile court for five college students for criminal association with a view to preparing for aggravated violence, an offence.

The Pnat requires that the schoolgirl at the origin of the case also appear before this court for slanderous denunciation, still according to the source close to the file.

Closed in early October, the investigations were then reopened for a few weeks, the time according to a source close to the file to check the schedule of relatives of Abdoullakh Anzorov.

It is now up to the counter-terrorism investigating judges to make a final decision on whether to commit these people to trial.