Paris: “I’m deeply sorry,” says the defendant who started the hate speech against Samuel Pati beheaded

On the stand of the defendant sat Monday (02.12.2024) 52-year-old Brahim Smina, the first man to start sending hate messages against Samuel Pati, History – Geography that was beheaded by a young jihadist on 16 October 2020 in . “I am not a terrorist”, Brahim Smina argued before the special criminal court in Paris where they are tried from 4 November 8 adults, who are accused of contributing to the hate campaign that led to the murder of Professor Samuel Pati. Moroccan Brahim Smina, aged 52, is the father of the 13-year-old student whose lie in 2020 created a hate campaign leading to the decapitation of the professor. It all happened when the 13-year-old falsely argued that Samuel Pati asked the Muslim students to leave his lesson before he showed cartoons with the prophet Muhammad. he had taken as she did not want to be punished by her parents “What I did is irreparable and unforgivable,” the accused admitted while not stopping saying she was sorry. The 52-year-old father is charged with setting up a terrorist criminal gang and is faced with 30-year-old imprisonment. The 52-year-old a few days before the professor was brutally murdered by the young jihadist of Chechen citizenship, he published messages and videos with which he denounced Samuel Pati as a “scum” professor. He did not hesitate to reveal his school’s name and address in social media causing severe reactions. “He must be punished”, “we must break his back”, “I can find his address…”, were some of the messages he had sent. The investigation of the authorities revealed that between 9 and 13 October the man had spoken 9 times to Abdullah Anzorov, the murderer of Samuel Patti. “But I never met him,” Snina insisted. “I deeply regret what I did. I’m so sorry. I’m not a terrorist and I’m not part of any terrorist-related criminal organization. It’s true that I made a video and I’m sorry this turned out badly,” the defendant stressed. “I am not radicalized. The way I practice Islam is like that of all the Muslims of France,” continued Smina, who, however, worked with Islamist preacher Abdelhakim Sefriwi to harass Pati online. “Without Sefriwi things would not have evolved like this,” said the defendant, adding “but I can only blame myself. I am responsible.” “Do you think you contributed to causing what happened?” the court president asked. “With the video and messages I wrote, yes,” said the defendant. “I regret putting Pati in this situation, it was not my purpose. If I had known there were threatening people, I might have been able to do something to help Pati,” he explained. “I apologize, honestly, from the bottom of my heart to Patti (…) Regardless of the sentence you will impose upon me…”, go on. Killer Abdullah Anzorov, aged 18, a Russian radicalized Islamist, from Chechnya, was killed by police shortly after his act. The trial will continue until December 20th.