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A Chechen Islamist who beheaded a history teacher on an open street near Paris last week was linked to a Russian-speaking jihadist in Syria. The professor had previously shown cartoons of Mohamed in a class on freedom of expression. The Syrian connection was reported in Le Parisien and confirmed by the Paris Antiterrorist Prosecutor’s Office.
The identity of the jihadist has not yet been revealed, but the newspaper knows that he may have been in Idlib province in northwestern Syria based on his IP address. This area is the last stronghold for Islamist fighters in Syria.
History teacher Samuel Paty, 47, was killed and fired on October 16 by Abdoullakh Anzorov, an 18-year-old Islamist from Chechen near Paris, for showing cartoons of Mohamed to students during his freedom of expression class.
In an audio recording in Russian, the Chechen attacker said he wanted revenge on the teacher for “showing the prophet in an offensive way.” In a message quoted by the French news agency, the Islamist quoted the Koran and asked his “brothers: pray that Allah recognizes him as a martyr.” In a recording distributed on Instagram, Anzorov made a reference in Russian to a terrorist organization called the Islamic State.
At the request of the French antiterrorist prosecutor’s office, the competent investigating judge on Thursday accused seven people, including two minors, of allegations of complicity in a terrorist murder, the investigation is trying to find out when and how from the Russian citizenship Anzorov.
A lawyer for Abdelhakim Sefrioui, an Islamist preacher who incited the teacher on the Internet and was accused of complicity in a terrorist murder in the case, claims that there was no connection between his client and the Islamist killer. He said that “the clients are behind the murder, that they are now presumably happy that the investigation is targeting two peripheral figures who never wanted this atrocity.” According to the lawyer, “the dangerous people who trained Anzorov are in a safe place and will train others.”
The murder has deeply moved French public opinion, which still vividly recalls the massacre in the Paris editorial office of the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, which portrays the Prophet Muhammad in pictures.
(via MTI)
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