2023-07-07 19:51:55
An investigating judge was appointed after the complaint by the teacher’s family for “non-assistance to a person in danger” and “non-prevention of the crime”, declared this Friday July 7 their lawyer, Me Virginie Leroy.
The investigations into possible shortcomings of the administration in the protection of Samuel Paty, assassinated on October 16, 2020 near the college where he taught, have been entrusted to an investigating judge, said this Friday July 7 a judicial source. .
According to this source, the Paris public prosecutor’s office, which had been conducting a preliminary investigation into this aspect since April 19, 2022, requested on February 3 the appointment of an investigating magistrate to continue the investigations for non-assistance to a person in danger and non-impediment of crime. “The investigation is in progress,” she said.
“An investigating judge has been appointed, so he will continue the investigations which have been underway for a year under a preliminary investigation”, announced earlier in the morning on France info Me Virginie Le Roy. The lawyer for the professor’s family said she was “intimately convinced” that the assassination of Samuel Paty could have been avoided. She filed a complaint on April 6, 2022 targeting “several agents from the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of National Education”, for “non-assistance to person in danger and non-prevention of crime”. In this complaint, she recalled the slow process, started by a course on secularism in the Yvelines college where the 47-year-old professor taught at the beginning of October 2020, which resulted in his assassination on the 16th by Abdoullakh Anzorov, a refugee from Russia. Chechen.
«Menace grave»
The young 18-year-old man, radicalized, reproached him for having shown caricatures of Muhammad in class and had claimed his action by congratulating himself on having “avenge the prophet”, before being killed by the police. According to the complaint, “from October 8 and until October 16, Samuel Paty, the principal and the teachers identified a serious threat to their physical integrity and the security of the college”.
This threat resulted in particular from the media coverage of the case via social networks by Brahim Chnina, the father of a schoolgirl who claimed to have attended the course during which Samuel Paty had shown the cartoons, and by the sulphurous Islamist activist Abdelhakim Sefrioui. But this “fatwa against the professor”, as the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin had described it three days after the assassination, did not have a response to the height, believe those close to the professor.
“We are waiting for the truth to be made […] investigations must continue so that we really know who did what and who did not do what above all, ”said Me Le Roy on Franceinfo. In mid-May, the anti-terrorism magistrates responsible for investigating the assassination of Samuel Paty ordered trials at the assizes for eight adults and before the juvenile court for six teenagers.
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