How did the outrage of a parent lead to the beheading of a high school teacher?

Samuel Paty Died for showing a caricature of Mohamed, the French high school teacher was beheaded. The instigator was the father of a student who first demanded the replacement of a teacher on Facebook, whom many joined, and although the school tried to deal with the outrage, he was killed one day after teaching by a Chechen who was allegedly related to his father.

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The 47-year-old father taught history and geography at a secondary school in Bois D’Aulne, 35,000, not far from Paris. According to his colleagues, he lived his profession.

On October 5, he spoke to Mohamed’s cartoons on freedom of expression featuring students ages 13-14. The father of one of the students, Brahim C. he learned that in one of the cartoons the Prophet was squatting naked and a star was drawn on his butt with the inscription:

A star has been born.

The father expressed his displeasure on Facebook two days later, then visited the school principal one day and asked him to fire the teacher from the institution with immediate effect. Even that night, he posted a video on his social media site in which he spoke of a complaint against a teacher for distributing pornographic images. In response, Samuel Paty sued the man for defamation.

The father also provided his phone number in the post so anyone could reach him and said the teacher had no place in schools. Three days later, on October 11, he reappeared on Facebook and issued a call to take action against the teacher and end Islamophobia in France.

The Angry Father, the Islamist and the Chechen Killer

Brahim C. visited the director again this week, but at that point he was no longer alone: ​​he went with him Abdelhakim Sefrioui, a man of Franco-Moroccan descent who has been on the horizons of counterterrorists for 15 years, according to press reports. The two men did not want to meet the teacher despite the offer of leadership, but instead organized a demonstration in front of the school.

Sefrioui is the president of the Cheikh Yassine community, the founder of the Islamist Hamas, About Ahmed Jászín got his name. (Jászin was killed in an Israeli airstrike in 2004 in response to the organization’s terrorist attacks.)

The next day, October 12, Sefrioui posted a ten-minute conversation on his side with the daughter of Brahim C. In this, the boy spoke of

the teacher does not respect us, we are not the same in his eyes, and we are not even human.

According to the French Interior Ministry, the couple not only announced an expiration campaign against the teacher, but also sentenced the history teacher to a fatwa.

Abdullakh Anzorov As the investigation currently stands, he also tried to contact his father and Islamist partner on Facebook, eventually communicating with the man who started the movement by phone, according to French press reports. You know, they exchanged messages and talked multiple times.

The perpetrator bought the murder weapon with two friends the day before the incident. The 18-year-old Chechen man walked the next day in front of a school an hour and a half drive from his residence and asked the students where the teacher was. He offered money to four children, one of whom accepted it and showed him where to go. Anzorov found the master, wounded him several times and beheaded him. Then he called his victim an incredulous dog. The police officers who arrived fired nine bullets at the perpetrator 200 meters from the scene.

Anzorov was born in Moscow but has not been there since 2008, according to Russian reports. It was then that he moved his family to France, where he received a residence permit in March last year. Upon moving there as a refugee, he lost his Russian citizenship. Although of Chechen descent, he visited Chechnya only once, at the age of two. He had no criminal record and the police did not monitor him for radicalization.

Macron needs to put things in order

The events have rocked France, with tens of thousands of people protesting in Paris last weekend in favor of freedom of expression and violence against teachers.

The apparent national unity, on the other hand, shed light on the growing contrast in some parts of the country. French educators report increasingly worrying trends.

Secularism is a central element of French identity, as important as the motto of liberty, equality, fraternity. The essence of this is that classrooms and workplaces must be religiously neutral. According to the state, obstructing freedom of expression undermines the unity of the country, even in small communities.

Educators discovered that after a terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo’s editorial board in 2015, several Muslim students believed that journalists from Mohamed Cartoons magazine deserved to die. Apparently, this opinion was brought from home, and even now the indignation of a father led to tragedy.

Five years after the murder of Charlie Hebdo, the French government faces the same problem as then: racism and exclusion oppress immigrants of Muslim origin, and many of them do not want to defend French values ​​because they see them as not being applied to them.

Emmanuel macron in any case, there is growing social and political pressure on the president to try to control divisions and murderous spirits.

So far, the death of Samuel Paty has led to the arrest of at least 15 people and seven people, including two minors, have been prosecuted. The two minors are a 14-year-old boy and a 15-year-old boy accused of showing the Chechen attacker the history teacher in exchange for money after he indicated that he wanted to “humiliate and beat” the teacher and “force him to apologize “. He showed the cartoons of Mohamed on his watch. Among the suspects is Brahim C., who and Sefrioui are accused of attacking the teacher on social media. A radical agitator in the secret service registry for two decades was suspected of encouraging the abbot to goad the master.

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