France’s anti-terrorism court has convicted eight people of involvement in the beheading of teacher Samuel Paty outside his school near Paris four years ago – a horrific death that shocked the country.
On Friday, a French court handed heavy sentences to several men convicted of having played a role in the jihadist beheading of schoolteacher Samuel Paty in 2020 – a murder that horrified France.
47-year-old Paty was murdered in October 2020 by an 18-year-old Islamist radical of Chechen origin after showing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in class.
His killer, Abdoullakh Anzorov, died in a shootout with police.
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Two friends of Anzorov, Naim Boudaoud and Azim Epsirkhanov were convicted of complicity in the killing and jailed for 16 years.
Prosecutors had accused them of having given Anzorov logistical support, including to buy weapons.
Epsirkhanov admitted he had received €800 from his fellow Chechen Anzorov to find him a real gun but had not succeeded.
Prosecutors said Boudaoud had accompanied Anzorov to buy two replica guns and steel pellets on the day of the attack.
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Brahim Chnina, the 52-year-old Moroccan father of a schoolgirl who falsely claimed that Paty had asked Muslim students to leave his classroom before showing the caricatures, was jailed for 13 years.
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