Chechen man arrested for glorifying beheading of French teacher



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A 22-year-old chaplain who liked photos of a teacher beheaded last week on the Internet was arrested and taken into custody in France on Sunday on suspicion of glorifying a terrorist act.

He is 47 years old Samuel Paty he was killed and fired by a history teacher on October 16 Abdullakh Anzorov, an 18-year-old Chechen Islamist near Paris because he showed Mohamed cartoons to students during his class on freedom of expression. The jihadist posted online photos of his victim after the murder, who he arrested on Sunday, like the murderer, a 22-year-old Chechen born in Moscow who liked him on Twitter.

According to the competent prosecutor’s office, the suspect has written comments that constitute a glorification of terrorism. At his home in Blois, western France, investigators also seized several weapons and knives during the search of the home.

In 2017, when he was a minor, Chechen youth were once convicted of glorifying a terrorist act. Then, in January 2015, he glorified an Islamist assassination attempt on the editorial staff of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, which claimed 12 victims, he said. Frédéric Chevallier, a Blois prosecutor who said the suspect in questioning denied being a radical Islamist.

A Chechen perpetrator who beheaded a teacher was shot and killed by police shortly after the attack. In an audio recording in Russian, Anzorov said he wanted revenge on the teacher for “showing the prophet in an offensive way.” (MTI)



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