PARIS (AP) – France’s president on Tuesday named a domestic militant Islamist group that was on the horrific street last week after a teacher was beheaded in the Paris suburbs, revealing the classic strategy of the Prophet Muhammad.
Emanuel Macron said the group would be ordered to disband on Wednesday, while a mosque would stop condemning the teacher.
A terror investigation is underway into the murder of an 18-year-old Chechen refugee born in Moscow, who was later shot dead by police. The killer has been identified by authorities as Abdullakh Anzorov.
The seven people detained in connection with the serious murder, including two minors, were to go before an investigating magistrate for final preliminary charges the next day, the judicial official said early Wednesday. The seven were among 16 people initially detained, including five teenagers, for questioning. Nine are being released. The officer is not authorized to cite by name.
Investigators are trying to find out how the killer, who lives in Newmarket City Avarex, arranged his encounter with Patty, whether there was any complication and pre-beheading proceedings.
Speaking after a meeting with regional officials working to confront radical Islamists, Macron added that other organizations and individuals were preparing to shut down or remain silent on the radar.
Meanwhile, as he left school in the Conference-Saint-Honorin, north-west of Paris, he was beheaded on Friday where Samuel Patti gathered in a drizzle to pay his respects. Bouquets of flowers were hung in front of the school.
Patty showed the class of the Prophet of Islam in his class earlier this month to discuss freedom of expression. Her civic course resulted in parental complaints and threats.
Speaking in the Seine-Saint-Denis area northeast of Paris, Macron reiterated on Tuesday that he wanted “tangible results” to counter the “ideology of the (French) republic’s destruction”.
Maron Crowe said a cabinet meeting on Wednesday would order the dissolution of a group called Collective Chek Yassin. Named after the slain leader of the Palestinian Hamas, the group was founded in the early 2000s by a man who was detained for questioning. Macron did not give details of how the group was “directly trapped” in the attack.
Home Secretary Gerald Darmney later told BFMTV that the man in question helped spread the viral message of the student’s father against the teacher, with some Muslim individuals or groups becoming part of a fever on social media.
Rome’s international prayer service on Tuesday read out a message to faith leaders alienating themselves and all Muslims from the aggression to free themselves and all Muslims from aggression, a Sunni Muslim meeting in Cairo, with the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar heading out of France. Describing the beheading as “sinful and criminal”, he also said that “under the slogan of freedom of expression, the integrity of religions and the misuse of sacred symbols violate intellectual integrity.”
Macron has been asked to take swift, concrete action in the case. The French president is referring to Islamist extremism he is fighting over what he calls “separatism”, which officials say has created a parallel world in the country that opposes French values.
A mosque in Paris, northeast of Pantin, has been closed for six months since Wednesday night. A sign posted by the regional prefecture at the entrance to the mosque said the worship house would remain closed for six months with a six-month jail sentence for the violator.
The Pantin mosque is being punished for relaying an angry father’s message on social media calling for a rally against the teacher. According to press reports, the father quoted his 13-year-old daughter as saying that the teacher had told Muslims to leave the classroom – a version he had fought through Patty himself, according to press reports.
Officials say the strict interpretation of the Muslim holy book is an imam in the mosque who has long followed the path of the Sulfists.
Pantin was also home to an 18-year-old Pakistani refugee who attacked two people with a meat cleaver three weeks ago, injuring two people.
The French president said a national memorial service would be held on Wednesday evening on the campus of the Sorbonne to pay tribute to Patti, a “knowledge of the golden age” and a “platform to express ideas and freedoms”.
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Associated Press reporters Nicolas Garriga in Pantin, Sylvie Corbett in Paris and Nicole Winfield in Rome contributed to the report.
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