Karim (name has been changed) is now 18 years old. He was 14 years old when he agreed, for some tickets, to name a teacher at his school, Samuel Paty, the man who was going to murder him. In December 2023, the Paris juvenile court sentenced him for these events to two years in prison, including six months under an electronic bracelet. Of the five university students who helped the terrorist identify Samuel Paty as he was leaving his establishment in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine (Yvelines), it was he who received the most severe sentence.
Eleven months after this conviction, Karim appeared in court again on Monday, November 18, this time as a witness. The first trial was held behind closed doors and is the first time that the public and journalists have had the opportunity to hear it. But you don’t have much to say, Karim. Of course, acknowledge the facts. Certainly, he has regrets, which we assume are eternal. But when we get to the reasons why he agreed to “sell” the professor to a stranger who clearly did not wish him well, all that is left is emptiness: it was to “money”.
Invited by the president of the Paris Special Court, Franck Zientara, the young man, whose long curly hair falls over a black hooded sweatshirt, begins with a spontaneous statement: “Well, I regret itHe stutters, very nervous. I’m not going to lie to you and say I made a mistake. I am very sorry and I apologize again to the family…”
“I didn’t think…”
This Friday, October 16, 2020, Karim had just left class. He was preparing to return home when a ” Mister “as he calls it, challenged him. HE ” Mister “ His name is Abdoullakh Anzorov and he is 18 years old. “He offered me money in exchange for showing it to the teacher and I accepted. I went to the front of the school to see some of my classmates, and then we went to see the man, we told him that the teacher was there, and then… [il ferme les yeux] “Then this tragedy happened.”he continues, containing his excitement.
In reality, more than an hour passed between this contact and the moment when Samuel Paty was pointed out by the students as he was leaving the establishment. An hour that Karim spent in the company of the jihadist. “What did he tell you? »the president asks.
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