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A French court on Friday sentenced a 19-year-old biology student to a four-month suspended sentence after being convicted of “glorifying terrorism” for writing on Facebook that history professor Samuel Patty, who was killed by beheading , “deserved” death.
The young woman who appeared in court in Besançon (East) will have to complete a six-month citizenship course. The student commented in an article published by the newspaper “Lista Republicana” on her Facebook page, in which she announced a march in honor of the teacher’s memory, “He does not deserve to be beheaded, but he does deserve to die.”
I wrote the comment “hastily”
A user of the Pharos platform reported this comment and led to his arrest on Thursday at the University of Besançon and his arrest under police investigation. The student said in court: “I am sorry I wrote this comment and I apologize and do not agree with what she wrote,” stating that she “deleted that night” the comment she wrote “hastily” and “without thinking.”
“I made a big mistake and these messages do not correspond to my views,” added the student. She confirmed that she was not aware of the exact circumstances of the teacher’s beheading incident on October 16 when she posted the comment on Facebook.
“I am not against what (Samuel Patti) did by displaying a cartoon. He is a teacher who gives his lessons as he wants,” said the young woman.
The young woman belongs to a Muslim family, which says she “practices her religion at home” and that she fled the violence in Algeria.
“We are in a situation where we cannot write or say anything without thinking,” said Attorney General Margaret Barretti, who requested a six-month suspended prison sentence and 180 hours of community service.
The defendant’s attorney, Caroline Espucci, described her client as “a well-integrated young woman who doesn’t watch the news much” and doesn’t know “much about Samuel Patti.” He said he had found a “video recording of a student’s parents” in which he condemned the use of cartoons of the prophet Muhammad by a history and geography teacher during a fourth-year student course on freedom of expression.
The lawyer said that her client understood that it was “mockery of Muslims”, highlighting that she “wrote her comments without seeking information and her reaction was immediate” on social networks.
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