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Three other students were charged with complicity earlier this month for the beheading last month of Paty, who had shown her students cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad as part of a lesson on freedom of expression.
Family and colleagues hold up a photo of Samuel Paty during the ‘Marche Blanche’ in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, northwest of Paris, on October 20, 2020, in solidarity after he was beheaded for showing students caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad . Image: AFP
PARIS – Four teenage students have been indicted in France for the murder of Samuel Paty, including three for allegedly pointing out his killer to the teacher, a judicial source said Thursday.
Three other students were charged with complicity earlier this month for the beheading last month of Paty, who had shown her students cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad as part of a lesson on freedom of expression.
Paty’s assassination unleashed a torrent of outrage that prompted President Emmanuel Macron to crack down on Islamist extremism and violence in a country reeling from a wave of jihadist attacks since 2015 that have killed more than 250 people.
Three of the four students charged Thursday were suspected of identifying Paty with her killer, Abdullakh Anzorov, 18, who later located and beheaded him on a street near his school.
Anzorov, who was killed by the police at the scene of the beheading, paid the students a few hundred euros for their help.
The three, who are between 13 and 14 years old, are charged with “complicity in a terrorist murder,” the source said.
The fourth is the daughter of Brahim Chnina, who launched a virulent online campaign against Paty denouncing the teacher’s use of cartoons published by the satirical weekly. Charlie hebdo.
Chnina himself, as well as the Islamist militant Abdelhakim Sefrioui, who led the campaign together with him, have already been charged with complicity.
Her daughter is accused of Paty’s “defamatory complaint” after recounting her version of events in the classroom, although she did not actually attend her civics lesson.
Father and daughter reported Paty to the police for “discrimination” just over a week before the murder, claiming that she had singled out Muslim students by asking them to leave the room before showing the cartoons.
Other witnesses have reported that Paty only said that the students were free to leave the room if they did not want to see the cartoons, one of which showed the prophet without clothes.
The four teens were briefly detained earlier this week at the request of counterterrorism investigators, the source said, and released under judicial supervision.
The charges bring the total number of people investigated for the murder to 14.
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