Samuel Paty trial: the schoolgirl who accused the teacher gives her version of events

Heard as a witness this Tuesday, the teenager at the origin of the lie according to which Samuel Paty had taken the Muslim students out of his class to show caricatures apologized, in front of the family of the murdered teacher.

Already sentenced to 18 months in prison suspended for slanderous denunciation, the teenager who had shared with her father a lie according to which Samuel Paty had taken Muslim students out of his class to show caricatures of the prophet Muhammad in 2020 was heard as a witness by the special assize court of Paris, this Tuesday, November 26, 2024. As a reminder, At the time, she was not present at the course in question, so she lied. Today, she gave her version of the facts to the magistrates and the family of the professor, who disappeared four years earlier.

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“We are here because of my lie”

“I wanted to apologize for my lie. To my family too. Because we are here because of my lie. “If my father made a video, it was partly because of my lie,” she said at the bar. “Today, I complain about not having seen my father for four or five months, but you haven't seen Samuel Paty for four years,” she continued.

Although the teenager did not attend the class during which Samuel Paty revealed the caricatures, she was excluded two days earlier, on October 5, 2020, “because I was disrupting the class,” she explains. On October 7, she returned to class. “Two young girls in my class told me that they had seen caricatures the day before and that “it shocked them,” she says. That's when the crazy rumor was started, the lie was spewed. to her parents.

“I destroyed your life”

Quickly, her father – Brahim Chnina – relays the young girl's message to his contacts, including Abdelhakim Sefrioui, an Islamic preacher. The schoolgirl's father then publishes videos targeting Samuel Paty, before Sefrioui publishes in turn a video called “Islam and the Prophet insulted in a public college”. It was through this video that the terrorist Anzorov allegedly learned of Samuel Paty's existence. Brahim Chnina now faces up to 30 years in prison for terrorist conspiracy. Now 17 years old, the former student at the college where Samuel Paty taught assured “never had a problem” with him. “I destroyed your life,” she told the family of the murdered professor.