"
I understand why they are being killed
": the Versailles criminal court on Thursday sentenced a mother to three months' suspended imprisonment for remarks condoning terrorism, two weeks after the attack on Samuel Paty.
At the hearing, Joséphine P., with a clean criminal record, assured "
not to remember
" having uttered this threatening sentence to the teachers, evoking "
a delusional panic attack
" at the time of the facts.
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On November 3, this 48-year-old woman was summoned by her son's college to Guyancourt (Yvelines), without knowing why, she says.
For the management of the college, the reasons for his summons are nevertheless clear: his 13-year-old son wrote on a ball of paper: "
For how much do you kill Monsieur ...?"
», Indicating his professor of history and geography.
This almost two weeks after the attack against Samuel Paty, a history and geography teacher assassinated on October 16 by an 18-year-old Chechen Russian who accused him of showing in class caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.
Arriving at college, Joséphine P. is very agitated.
According to the management of the establishment, she gets carried away, and launches: "
What is this college ?!"
I understand why we kill them
”, speaking of the teachers.
She claims to have said: "
I understand that the parents go wild
", "
very angry
" against her son.
"
When I was called, it pissed me off a lot
," she explained, trembling, in court, "
when I got to college, I had a delusional panic attack when I saw him
" .
Joséphine P., also told the court of her fragile mental health, chaining depressions while raising her three children alone.
"
It is quite possible that she does not remember the words she said, because she was in a daze
," admitted the prosecutor.
"
But even if she is not intimately convinced of what she said (...), she said it this sentence, and this is part of an extremely dangerous trivialization in our society
", he said. she declared, requesting 3 months' imprisonment with a probationary suspension of 18 months and obligation of care.
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Joséphine P.'s lawyer, Me Sébastien Petit, underlined "
the hesitation
" around the comments reported, believing that no one, according to him, was "
able to relate precisely the words
" made.
"
You went crazy, you said it
" admitted the president, "
but that does not prevent you from uttering words which constitute this offense
" of defending terrorism.