On Monday, March 2nd a French appeals court reduced the prison sentences of three men convicted in connection with the 2020 jihadist beheading of a teacher who had shown his class cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.
Two friends of the attacker, French national Naim Boudaoud and Azim Epsirkhanov, a Russian of Chechen origin, had their 16-year sentences reduced to six and seven years, respectively. Both were accused of driving the killer and helping him procure weapons before beheading Samuel Paty. Meanwhile, Brahim Chnina, a Moroccan father involved in the case, saw his 13-year sentence reduced to 10 years.
The court, however, left the 15-year term for French-Moroccan Islamist activist Abdelhakim Sefrioui untouched.
Paty, 47, was murdered in October 2020 by 18-year-old Abdoullakh Anzorov, a radical Islamist of Chechen origin, in an act that horrified France. Anzorov was killed in a shootout with police shortly after the attack.
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