© Reuters. FILE PICTURE: A picture handled October 16, 2023 reveals a celebratory plaque for killed instructor Samuel Paty (picture) near the Bois d’Aulne school in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, outdoors Paris. BERTRAND GUAY/Pool by means of REUTERS/File Picture
PARIS (Reuters) -6 teens go on trial behind closed doors on Monday in connection with the beheading of French history instructor Samuel Paty in 2020, a murder that surprised the nation.
The instructor had actually revealed his students caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad in a class on flexibility of expression, outraging some Muslim moms and dads. A lot of Muslims prevent representations of prophets, considering them blasphemous.
A 13-year-old woman at the time apparently informed her moms and dads that Paty had actually asked Muslim students to leave the space before revealing the caricatures. She is dealing with incorrect allegation charges after it was developed that she was not in the class when it took place.
Paty, 47, was eliminated outside his school in a Paris suburban area by an 18-year-old assaulter of Chechen origin, who was shot dead by cops right after the attack.
The 5 other minors, aged in between 14 and 15 at the time of the attack, will be charged with premeditated criminal conspiracy, or ambush.
They are believed of having actually mentioned Paty to the killer or assisted monitor his exit from the school.
All 6 minors were described the kids’s court and might deal with 2-1/2 years in jail. They can not be recognized due to their age and went into court on Monday using hoodies to conceal their faces.
” He is taken in with remorse and is really afraid of the conflict with Paty’s household,” Antoine Ory, legal representative for among the implicated, stated on Monday before the hearing began.
Paty’s sis Mickaelle stated in a declaration through legal representative Louis Cailliez that her sibling would still live without a “deadly association of little cowardices, huge lies”.
The hearings, due to last up until Dec. 8, will be held behind closed doors.
8 grownups are likewise implicated and will appear before an unique criminal court.
Last month, practically 2 years to the day of Paty’s killing, a 20-year-old male fatally stabbed an instructor and seriously injured 2 other individuals in an attack at a school in northern France, activating restored worries of jihadist violence.
France has actually suffered a wave of attacks by Islamist militants in previous years, consisting of a weapon rampage in 2015 in the workplaces of Charlie Hebdo, a satirical publication that had actually released caricatures Paty displayed in his class.