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Investigators believe that several students pointed for money who Professor Samuel Paty was to the jiadista who beheaded him on Friday next to the school where he worked in the Paris region.
Education Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer said Tuesday that “there are elements” that point to this possibility, with four students detained – a fifth student has been released without charge – on suspicion of being involved in the development of the attack. .
In an interview with the channel “BFMTV”, Blanquer stressed that, if true, “it would be very serious” and would demonstrate “the penetration among young people of a certain worldview”, that of “fundamentalist Islamism” through social networks and certain organizations.
Abdouallakh Anzorov, the 18-year-old Chechen assassin who had refugee status in France like other members of his family, arrived on Friday from Evreux, where he lived, to the town of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, where the events occurred. without knowing Paty personally.
The first elements suggest that a controversy was generated through messages posted on social networks by some parents of school students after the teacher showed cartoons of the prophet Muhammad in a class on freedom of expression.
Specifically, the father of a student published an accusatory video and launched a campaign against the teacher, with which he claimed to want the teacher to be punished.
Blanquer said that at the national tribute to be given on Wednesday at the Sorbonne University, Paty will be posthumously decorated with the Legion of Honor, France’s highest official distinction, and will be named a member of the Order of Academic Palms (Ordre des Palmes Academica).
On November 2, at the return of the autumn school holidays, all schools in France will observe a minute of silence in memory of Paty and students who do not respect it will be penalized.
In addition, the Ministry is preparing an “educational sequence” in which teachers, but also lawyers and journalists, will speak about secularism, freedom of expression and respect for teachers.
Jean-Michel Blanquer pointed out that there is a “counteroffensive of the Republic.”
On the other hand, this morning, the Minister responsible for Citizenship, Marlène Schiappa, receives leaders from different social networks and platforms (such as Twitter, Facebook or Snapchat) to address the issue of the fight against the spread of Islamic fundamentalism.
The French authorities launched several operations on Monday against an alleged Islamic extremist movement and promised “a war against the enemies of the Republic”, three days after the murder of Samuel Paty on Friday.
At least 15 people, including four students, are being detained by the police and being questioned by the antiterrorist authorities to try to establish a link between these suspects and the alleged murderer, who ended up being shot dead by the police.
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