LE PAIQUE, France (AP) – Police in France have questioned four 10-year-old children who supported the beheading of a schoolteacher and who said they would kill their own teacher if they gave a shroud to a prophet of Islam, the prime minister has warned. The government said. On Saturday, Islamic extremists were recruiting in France with “ignorance and hatred.”
Police detained the children and their parents for several hours on Thursday in the alpine town of Albertville, Interior Ministry spokesman Kamil Chaij said.
Monday, when French schools observed a nationwide minute of silence In honor of slain teacher Samuel Patty, the children supported his assassination near Paris last month, the spokesman said in a video statement on Friday night.
He “justified the killing of the teacher by arguing that it is forbidden to insult the prophet and added that they would kill their teacher if they expressed the prophet.”
Petty was murdered on October 16 by an 18-year-old refugee outside his Paris-area school Chechen descent after he demonstrated his class strategy of Prophet Muhammad for discussion on free expression.
Albertville’s children were released after questioning. Judicial officials have ordered educated training for them, a ministry spokesman said. Police also searched their homes.
Patti was killed by a knife attack on a church on October 29, killing three people Nice. Leading Saturday’s memorial to the victims in the Mediterranean city, French Prime Minister Jean-Claude Texas warned that extremists were recruiting French nationals.
“We know the enemy,” Kastex said. “Not only does it have an identity, but it also has a name: it is radical Islamism, a political ideology that distorts the Muslim religion by distorting its texts, ambiguity and hatred to impose its dominance commandments, it is an enemy that benefits foreigners. Even with support, alas, French citizens also count in its ranks. ”
The singer sang “What a Wonderful World”, famously recorded by Louis Armstrong, and the soldiers stood in silence to pay their respects to the victims – Nadine Devillers, Simon Barreto Silva and Vincent Locos.
The main suspect, Ibrahim Isaou, a 21-year-old Tunisian, is in a French hospital after police arrested him and wounded him.
Patty’s killer was shot and killed by police.
Meanwhile, authorities in the southeastern French city of Lyon on Saturday denied the terrorist plot on October 31. 31 There was a shooting of a Greek Orthodox priest., As they announced that a suspected gunman was in custody for the attack which seriously injured the priest.
The Lyon prosecutor’s office said the suspect detained was a 40-year-old man whose wife had an affair with a priest. It said the man confessed to the shooting during a police interrogation.
The pastor was shot twice in the abdomen while he was closing the church with a hunting rifle.
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