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AWhen Abdoullakh A. took a photo of the history teacher who was beheaded by him on Friday at 4:57 pm and posted it on the internet a little later, the corresponding message had been written for a long time. Investigators found it in his cell phone notes. It was addressed to the President of France: “From Abdoullakh, the servant of Allah, to Macron, the head of the infidels,” it said: “I executed one of your dogs from hell who dared to humiliate Muhammad.”
The account was run under the name @ Tchetchen_270 and has since been removed by the short message service Twitter. Though only active for a few weeks, Abdoullakh A., the 18-year-old Chechen who had been granted political asylum in France and had a residence permit since March, posted more than 400 messages online.
Often they were excerpts from the Qur’an, but also once a photo montage of a beheading scene that went online on July 30. Three days earlier, Lycra, an association against racism and anti-Semitism, had also referred to the story because Abdoullakh A. had described “the Jews” as “cursed people” in a short message.
The fact that the French secret services still did not know the perpetrator should perhaps not be considered a failure, but a fatal omission.
Already in 2018, a Chechen born in 1997 killed one person and injured several near the Paris Opera. During the 2017 presidential election campaign, investigators managed to prevent a planned assassination attempt on one of the candidates. It was planned by a Frenchman who had become radicalized in contact with the Chechens.
Officials reject it, pointing out that they are dealing with a new form of terror, because in the last six attacks in France, the six perpetrators had escaped the mesh of the secret service. All of them radicalized “very quickly, in a very short time,” said Laurent Núñez, secretary of state for the Interior Ministry and intelligence coordinator in the fight against terrorism.
“They have no contact with people who are present in the Islamic State, in Syria or Iraq”, so, according to Núñez, “they are practically undetectable.” Núñez assured, however, that the Chechen community was “the focus of the secret services.”
Others doubt it. “When it comes to radicalization, Chechens are in a kind of blind spot, although there have been numerous indications,” “Marianne” magazine anonymously quotes a former secret service employee.
Language problems
The German-Egyptian political scientist Asiem El Difraoui also believes that France has focused too much on the terrorist organization IS and has neglected other groups. That would explain why French researchers do not have a deep understanding of this community, which was only noticed in June of this year.
Chechens from all over the country traveled to Dijon on a campaign of revenge to fight street battles with French of Arab origin. “You don’t really know what’s going on in the Chechen diaspora because there are few people in the French secret service who speak the language,” says El Difraoui.
“It is a brutal society, a group with an extremely patriarchal clan structure and a long history of violence,” the political scientist said in an interview with WELT.
France’s Secretary of State Núñez is careful not to use the outdated term “lone wolf.” He believes that the law against separatism and parallel societies announced two weeks ago by President Macron is a step in the right direction.
The fact that the last six murderers acted in an almost floating way is proof that the fight against terrorism goes far beyond the task of the secret services and must involve “all government services, all communities”.
The fact that the author came from Evreux, some 90 kilometers away, to the municipality of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine and asked the students about the appearance of the teacher suggests that Abdoullakh A. did not know his victim personally.
It is very likely that he was animated to her horror by various videos of a parent at school. He had asked that the teacher be detained and given his cell phone number.
For the moment, however, the researchers do not rule out that the author has been hired directly. The spokesman for the Association of Chechens in Europe, Chamil Albakov, assumes that the 18-year-old was radicalized “in his room, on the Internet”, not in the neighboring mosque.
