A young man of 18 was sentenced Thursday, November 26 to 15 months in prison by the criminal court of Meaux after broadcasting a rap clip where
he proclaimed "We cut like Samuel Paty, without empathy
", against a background of machetes and saws.
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Arrested Tuesday in Lagny-sur-Marne (Seine-et-Marne), he was sentenced in immediate appearance for apologizing for terrorism, carrying a prohibited category D weapon and concealment of destruction by means dangerous to people, told AFP the Meaux prosecutor's office.
The music video for the track entitled "
Samuel Paty
", broadcast on YouTube, features this rapper surrounded by young people masked in black and armed with machetes, knives and saws.
As a backdrop, a burning car.
On November 13, a 14-year-old teenager took over the words of this song in class to threaten a teacher from a college in Savigny-le-Temple during a course devoted to freedom of expression.
An investigation had been opened for death threats against a person entrusted with a public service mission by the Melun prosecutor's office.
The teenager, in third grade, who also carried a Taser pulse gun in one of his pockets, was presented to a juvenile judge.
Samuel Paty, professor of history and geography, was beheaded in the middle of the street near his college in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine (Yvelines) on October 16 by an 18-year-old Chechen who accused him of having shown in class caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.
