A photo of the decapitated professor Samuel Paty during a tribute to Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, October 20, 2020. -

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A lie that triggers the worst.

The schoolgirl, whose accusations against Samuel Paty had given rise to the cabal that led to the assassination of the teacher, admitted in November to having lied about her presence in classes on the cartoons of Muhammad, we learned on Monday. with his lawyer, confirming information from the

Parisian.

The investigation had quickly established that the young girl "was absent for illness" during the course given on October 6 in her class at the college of Bois d'Aulne, in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine (Yvelines), said the national anti-terrorism prosecutor October 21.

"She lied because she felt caught in a gear"

During his police custody and indictment for "slanderous denunciation" a month later, Z. Chnina admitted to lying, claiming that the teacher had asked Muslim students to report and leave the classroom during the meeting. this course entitled "Dilemma Situation: To Be Or Not To Be Charlie".

“She lied because she felt caught in a gear, because comrades had asked her to be their spokesperson,” assures her lawyer Mbeko Tabula.

"There was a real discomfort, she felt obliged to add more to promote this message," he defends.

Fourteen people indicted

Based on the testimony of his daughter, who was also threatened with expulsion for disciplinary reasons, Brahim Chnina lodged a complaint against the teacher and launched a virulent campaign on social networks with the help of an Islamist activist, Abdelhakim Sefrioui.

The two men, indicted for "complicity in murder", are in pre-trial detention.

Informed by their smear campaign, a radicalized 18-year-old Chechen refugee, Abdullakh Anzorov, surrendered on October 16 in front of the college.

For money, college students had allowed him to identify the 47-year-old teacher, whom he had beheaded before attacking the police who had shot him.

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In total, fourteen people are indicted in this case, including six college students, three friends of the assailant and three young people in contact with him on social networks.

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