Terror trial: Eight convictions after barbaric teacher murder attack

Terror trial: Eight convictions after barbaric teacher murder attack

On October 16, 2020, a gruesome murder shocked French society: history teacher Samuel Paty was beheaded in a suburb of Paris. The 18-year-old perpetrator was later shot dead by police. This brutal act, motivated by Islamist terrorism, was triggered by an online smear campaign waged against Paty. He had shown cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed during class, which led to his assassination. The crime caused horror around the world vienna.at reported.

Now, almost four years after the crime, a French anti-terror court handed down harsh sentences: a total of eight people were convicted for their roles in this terrible crime. Two of the perpetrator's friends each received sixteen years in prison because they were accused of being in on the murder plans and of helping the attacker buy weapons and driving him to the crime scene. Her claim that she knew nothing about her true intentions was ignored, as was the case with bluewin.ch was described.

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Those convicted also include the father of the student who launched the smear campaign and an Islamist preacher. These people face a prison sentence of 13 or 15 years respectively. These judgments make it clear that the French authorities are determined to take action against all forms of terrorism and hate speech and that those accomplices to such acts will be held accountable.