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The murderer of the French professor who showed Muhammad cartoons in a class released an audio message on social networks in which he claimed to have avenged the prophet, after publishing a photograph of his victim. This Wednesday, two minors were brought to trial for having told the murderer who the teacher was.
Citing a source close to the case, the French news agency writes that Abdullakh Anzorov, a Moscow-born Chechen refugee, says, in hesitant Russian, that he “avenged the prophet”, criticizing the French history and geography professor for showing Muhammad “insultingly”.
In the message posted on social media, the attacker is out of breath, but makes several references to passages from the Koran. “Brothers, pray that Allah will accept me as a martyr,” he says, according to an AFP translation.
This message was accompanied by two tweets spread by 18-year-old Abdoullakh Anzorov, in which he admitted to killing the professor at the Bois d’Aulne university in Conflans-Saint-Honorine, northwest of Paris.
Shortly after the murder, Abdoullakh Anzorov was shot dead by the police, 200 meters from his victim’s body.
Today, seven people were present at the Paris investigative court for links to the terrorist act, including two students, ages 14 and 15, who told the attacker who the teacher was in exchange for money, said the Attorney General for Combating Terrorism, Jean-François Ricard, in a statement to the press.
The antiterrorist division of the French Attorney General’s Office defended in court the existence of a “direct” relationship between criticism on social networks sent by the father of one of the students and the murder of the teacher.
The identification of the victim, Samuel Paty, 47, “was only possible thanks to the intervention of the students, two of them minors,” said Ricard, who specified that the attacker offered between 300 and 350 euros in exchange for information.
Among the group of seven people present in court is also Brahim C., the father of the student who called for a mobilization against the teacher on social networks, after two classes on freedom of expression, on October 5 and 6, in a school about 20 kilometers from Paris.
Anti-terrorist investigators, in search of possible accomplices, are analyzing the messages exchanged, through the WhatsApp application, between the student’s father and the teacher’s murderer.
The Islamic radical Abdelhakim Sefrioui, who accompanied the student’s father in the mobilization against the teacher, was also present in court.
The other three people who appeared before the examining magistrate today are three friends of the attacker who turned himself in to the police on Friday, the day Abdullakh Anzorov beheaded Professor Samuel Paty.
Meanwhile, a tribute to the professor will take place in the courtyard of the Parisian university of the Sorbonne, with the presence of the French president, Emmanuel Mácron, starting at 5:30 p.m. TMG (6:30 p.m. in Lisbon).
The teacher will be posthumously honored with the Legion of Honor and the five-year-old son will be declared a “student of the nation”, a distinction attributed to the children of parents killed in war or an attack.
After the assassination, the French authorities promised “a war against the enemies of the Republic” and, on Tuesday night, Macron guaranteed the intensification of actions against radical Islam.
France also remembers the terrorist attacks of January 2015 against the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, because in this publication cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad were published.
Late last month, a man attacked employees of a news agency working in the building where Charlie Hebdo’s former headquarters was located in Paris with a knife, causing several serious injuries.
The author of the attack, a Pakistani citizen, was arrested minutes later and confessed to the crime.
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