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Investigators believe that several students indicated in exchange for money to the Professor Samuel Paty, assassinated on Last Friday, next to the school where he worked near Paris, the jihadist who beheaded him.
The Minister of Education, Jean-Michel Blanquer, indicated on Tuesday that “there are elements that suggest that,” hours after it was confirmed that four students had also been arrested and that a fifth was quickly released without charges, due to suspicions of his involvement in the development of the attack.
In an interview with the BFMTV channel, Blanquer stressed that if this version is verified “it would be extremely serious” and would demonstrate “the penetration among the youngest of a certain vision of the world”, that of “fundamentalist Islamism”, through of social networks and certain organizations.
Abdouallakh Anzorov, the 18-year-old murderer of Chechen origin who had refugee status in France like other members of his family, arrived on Friday, October 16, 2020 from Evreux, where he lived, to the town of Conflans Sainte Honorine, where the events occurred, without knowing Paty personally.
The first elements suggest that it had been reported, through messages posted on social networks, of the controversy that some parents of school students had generated after the teacher had shown the controversial cartoons in a class on freedom of expression of the prophet Muhammad.
In particular, the father of a student – who had previously been excluded for behavioral reasons – who posted an accusatory video and launched a campaign against the teacher, with which he claimed to want him to be sanctioned.
The Minister of Education insisted that no sanction was ever contemplated, a thesis that derives “from the father who is at the origin of the murder.” On the contrary, educational officials “offered their support from beginning to end” to Paty, who filed a defamation complaint.
Blanquer advanced that, in the national tribute that this Wednesday will be paid to the professor of history at the University of the Sorbonne, he will be posthumously decorated with the Legion of Honor, the highest official distinction in France, and will be named Commander of Las Palmas Academics.
So far, 15 people have been captured for the teacher’s murder.
On November 2, at the return of the autumn school holidays, all schools in France will observe a minute of silence in memory of Paty and students who do not respect her will be sanctioned, to avoid repeating past behaviors for other jihadist attacks.
In addition, the ministry prepares an “educational sequence” in which teachers, but also lawyers or journalists will talk about secularism, freedom of expression or respect for teachers. Blanquer spoke of a “counteroffensive of the Republic.”
On the other hand, the Minister in charge of Citizenship, Marlène Schiappa, received this Tuesday the leaders in France of different social networks and platforms (such as Twitter, Facebook or Snapchat) to address the issue of the fight against the spread of Islamic fundamentalism.
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