Students will have indicated the beheaded teacher in Paris for money to the jiadist

Investigators believe that several students indicated for money who Professor Samuel Paty was to the jiadista who beheaded him on Friday next to the school where he worked in the Paris region.

Education Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer said on Tuesday that “there are elements” that suggest this possibility, with four students being detained – a fifth student has been released without charge – due to suspicions of being involved in the development of the attack. .

In an interview with the channel “BFMTV”, Blanquer underlined that, if it were true, “it would be very serious” and would demonstrate “the penetration among the young people of a certain worldview”, that of “fundamentalist Islamism” through social networks and certain organizations.

Abdouallakh Anzorov, the 18-year-old Chechen murderer who had refugee status in France like other members of his family, arrived on Friday from Evreux, where he lived, to the city of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, where the facts occurred, without knowing Paty personally.

The first elements suggest that a controversy was created through messages posted on social networks by some parents of school students after the teacher displayed cartoons of the prophet Muhammad in a class on freedom of expression.

In particular, the father of a student published an accusatory video and launched a campaign against the teacher, with which he stated that he wanted the teacher to be punished.

Blanquer said that, in the national tribute that will be given on Wednesday at the University of Sorbonne, Paty will be posthumously decorated with the Legion of Honor, the highest official distinction in France, and will be named a member of the Order of the Academic Palms (Ordre des Palmes Academics).

On November 2, on the return of the autumn school holidays, all schools in France will observe a minute’s silence in memory of Paty and students who do not respect him will be sanctioned.

In addition, the Ministry is preparing an “educational sequence” in which teachers, but also lawyers and journalists, will talk about secularism, freedom of expression and respect for teachers.

Jean-Michel Blanquer pointed out that there is a “counter-offensive by the Republic”.

On the other hand, this morning, the Minister responsible for Citizenship, Marlène Schiappa, receives leaders from different social networks and platforms (such as Twitter, Facebook or Snapchat) to address the issue of the fight against the spread of Islamic fundamentalism.

French authorities launched several operations on Monday against an alleged Islamic extremist movement and promised “a war against the enemies of the Republic”, three days after Samuel Paty’s murder on Friday.

At least 15 people, including four students, are being held by the police and being interrogated by the anti-terrorism authorities to try to establish a link between these suspects and the alleged murderer, who ended up being shot dead by the police.

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