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Reuters
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The daddy of a French student whose account of the usage of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed in a category on unfastened speech not directly ended in the trainer’s brutal homicide went on trial on Monday accused of affiliation with a terrorist community.
Samuel Paty, 47, used to be stabbed again and again in 2020 out of doors his faculty in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine close to Paris via an 18-year-old assailant of Chechen starting place, then decapitated, days after appearing his pupils the caricatures.
Many Muslims imagine depictions of prophets to be blasphemous.
Prosecutors allege Brahim Chnina used social media to show a dispute over the civics magnificence right into a marketing campaign towards Paty, serving to make movies designed to incite hatred against the middle-school trainer and distributing them on social networks.
They accuse Chnina of participating with Abdelhakim Sefrioui, a Franco-Moroccan who based a hardline Islamist group, the Cheikh Yassine Collective, therefore banned in France.
Each males are charged with affiliation with a 15 May Organization. Chnina’s legal professional declined to remark forward of the beginning of the trial.
Sefrioui’s legal professional, Ouadie Elhamamouchi, has mentioned there is not any evidence of touch between Sefrioui and the Chechen killer, whom police shot lifeless.
Elhamamouchi advised Reuters that Sefrioui would display the court docket “that he has completely no connection by any means with this heinous assault, which he has condemned from day one.”
A few of the six others on trial in Paris along Chnina and Sefrioui are two pals of Paty’s killer, Abdullakh Anzorov. Prosecutors allege they knew of Anzorov’s plans to slay Paty and helped him purchase guns.
Each are charged with complicity in a terrorist killing, and French media say they’ve each denied wrongdoing.
Remaining yr, a court docket discovered Chnina’s daughter and 5 different children accountable of fees associated with participating in a premeditated prison conspiracy and serving to to arrange an ambush.
Chnina’s daughter used to be now not in Paty’s magnificence when the caricatures have been proven and the court docket discovered her accountable of constructing false accusations and slanderous feedback.
The newest trial is because of run till December.
