This Monday, the Paris Criminal Court imposed sentences ranging from 6 to 15 years in prison on the four accused of collaborating with the Chechen who, in 2020, beheaded the French teacher. Samuel Patty before being shot dead by the police.
In this appeal trial, the sentences handed down are slightly lower than those requested by the Prosecutor’s Office last Friday. During their final statements, the defendants denied having any criminal intent.
The highest sentence, 15 years in prison, has been pronounced against beheading-in-france/” title=”Eight Defendants Go On Trial Over Teacher's … in France”>Abdelhakim Sefriouifather of a Paty student and author of a campaign to discredit the teacher online, which had the support of the Islamist preacher Brahim Chnina, sentenced to ten years.
They thus put the professor in the spotlight, who wanted to teach a class on freedom of expression and who was reproached for having shown caricatures of Muhammad. days later, was stabbed and beheaded by a Chechen refugee on October 16, 2020 near a high school on the Parisian outskirts of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine.
And although they are lower than those requested, the sentences are higher than those handed down in the first instance, when they had been sentenced at the end of 2024 to 13 and 15 years in prison, respectively.
