Teacher beheaded in France: the student lied

The 13-year-old student who accused the professor beheaded Samuel Paty admitted that he lied and that “he was not present on the day of the cartoons”, in which the professor allegedly showed the prophet Muhammad naked. The minor is charged with “complaint slanderous “.

On October 6 last year, 10 days before his beheading at the hands of an 18-year-old Chechen, the history and geography teacher gave a lecture on Freedom expression and showed cartoons from the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo.

The young girl, identified as “Z”, who was one of her students at the Bois-d’Aulne school, in a north-western suburb of Paris, told her father that the educator had invited Muslim students leaving the classroom before showing the cartoons. if they preferred. Based on his daughter’s testimony, Brahim Chnina filed a complaint against the professor, calling him a “tyrant” and launching a virulent campaign on social networks with the help of Islamist activist Abdelhakim Sefrioui.

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“She lied because she felt trapped in a chain of events because some of her classmates asked her to be their spokesperson. There was real unease and she felt forced to add to enforce the message, “said the minor’s lawyer, Mbeko Tabula. .

“This lie with tragic consequences takes place in a complex family context. Due to the academic success of his twin sister, Z. would not have dared to admit to his father the real reasons for his exclusion shortly before the tragedy, linked to his bad behavior, “Le Monde reported and recalled that the young girl had told her father that she had been suspended for the protests she had made. Pushed to the limit by the police during the interrogation, the young woman was asked if she had “invented this cartoon to feel existing” in the eyes of her father, reminding him that she is often “compared” to her. twin, “much more diligent,” and she confessed, “I lied about something. “

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Later, he indicated that “he never saw the cartoons projected by Samuel Paty, neither on October 5 nor October 6”. “In fact, it was a girl in her class who told her about it on Wednesday 7, the day after the course on freedom of expression, which she did not attend due to her exclusion, motivated by her chronic absenteeism” , the researchers concluded. They do not consider the matter closed.