The prosecutor's demands came during the final pleading on Monday in the highly publicized trial surrounding the circumstances of the teacher murder.
Teacher Paty was brutally killed by an 18-year-old with Islamist views who reacted to the teacher showing satirical images of the Prophet Muhammad. The perpetrator was shot dead by the police after the deed.
The prosecutor dropped the suspicion of "complicity in terrorist murder" for two of the defendants, now 22 and 23 years old. However, in the final pleading, prosecutor Marine Valentin said that the two were "fully aware" of the perpetrator's Islamist connections and had supported him by, among other things, buying weapons. However, it could not be proven that the two had intended to participate in the murder plot.
Six more people are on trial for various degrees of involvement in the murder – with a penalty scale ranging from one to 14 years in prison.
Last year, six teenagers were convicted of helping the murderer identify Paty in exchange for payment. A sixth teenager, a then 13-year-old girl, was convicted of lying about events in the classroom before the murder, which was considered to have led to the crime.
