PARIS (Reuters) – The Paris children’s court on Friday sentenced the six teenagers tried behind closed doors since November 27 for their role in the assassination of Samuel Paty, to prison sentences ranging from 14 months suspended to six months from prison.
The sentence of the teenager sentenced to prison will however be adjusted and should be carried out at home using an electronic bracelet.
On October 16, 2020, the 47-year-old history and geography teacher had his throat cut as he left a college in Yvelines after showing his students caricatures of Mohammed as part of a course on secularism.
A minor, aged 13 at the time of the events, was on trial for slanderous denunciation against Samuel Paty. She claimed that the teacher had stigmatized Muslim students before showing the caricatures. She later retracted her statements, admitting that she had not attended the course in question.
The teenager’s father, who will be tried at the end of 2024 with seven other adults, launched a denunciation campaign on social networks based on these false accusations.
The teenager was sentenced to 18 months in prison, suspended for 2 years, subject to a series of obligations.
Five other teenagers, aged between 14 and 15 at the time, were on trial for conspiracy to commit aggravated violence. They were notably accused of having monitored the surroundings of the college and designated the teacher to the attacker in exchange for money.
One of the teenagers was sentenced to 24 months’ imprisonment, including 18 months suspended on probation for a period of 3 years. A second received 20 months in prison with a 3-year probationary suspension.
Two others were sentenced to 18 months of imprisonment with a probationary suspension of 3 years, and the last to 14 months with a probationary suspension of two years.
The six teenagers faced two and a half years in prison.
(Report by Juliette Jabkhiro, Clotaire Achi, written by Kate Entringer, edited by Camille Raynaud)
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