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On Wednesday a minute of silence was observed in Saint-Jean-de-Luz, in south-western France, in honor of the brutally murdered teacher Samuel Paty.
The man suspected of murdering Professor Samuel Paty paid between 300 and 350 euros (approximately 3,000 to 3,500 Swedish crowns) to the students to flag Paty.
The information that information was purchased about Paty, 47, was confirmed by France’s counter-terrorism prosecutor, Jean-François Ricard, at a press conference on Wednesday.
Paty was killed last Friday in the Parisian suburb of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, near the school where she worked. Then they cut off his head. The alleged perpetrator, an 18-year-old Russian of Chechen origin, was shot and killed by the police in connection with the intervention.
Two students
Some time before the deadly attack, the teacher gave a lecture on freedom of expression in which he showed cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. Students who did not want to see the images were offered to leave the classroom or were asked to close their eyes before the images were shown.
Soon some of the students’ parents were outraged that Muhammad cartoons had been shown and demanded that Samuel Paty be fired.
According to Jean-François Ricard, the investigation has so far concluded that the alleged killer had the name of the victim. But he didn’t know what Paty was like.
The counterterrorism prosecutor says the 18-year-old gave money to a student outside of school. Then more students joined and were offered to receive money as well. Some of the students left the premises outside the school, while two stayed. They waited with the alleged killer for more than two hours for the teacher to appear.
Teens are prosecuted
According to Jean-François Ricard, the alleged murderer told the students that he wanted to “humiliate and beat” Samuel Paty and force him to apologize for showing the cartoons.
The two students who helped the killer are 14 and 15 years old. They will be prosecuted, says Ricard.
– She was able to identify him (Paty) because she had the help of the school’s students.
The two teenagers are now part of a group of seven who will be charged under the criminal classification of “preparation for terrorist murder.”
Jean-François Ricard also confirms the information that contact had been established between the alleged murderer and the father of a student, who on social media had demanded that Samuel Paty be fired.
The murder has sparked strong reactions and led to widespread demonstrations in France.
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