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French police arrested the parents of the Chechen who committed the crime, including his grandfather and younger brother.
French law enforcement officers arrested 11 people suspected of being involved in the murder of a history professor at a university in the Parisian suburb of Conflans-Saint-Honorine, who showed a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad during a free speech lesson. This was reported by the French newspaper Le Figaro.
The student’s father, who posted a video threatening the teacher, and several other people who contacted the assailant shortly before the murder were also detained. Among them is the famous Islamist activist Abdelhakim Sefrivi.
The anti-terrorist prosecutor Jean-Francois Ricard stressed that the student’s father had a half sister. In 2014, he left the country to join the Islamic State terror group in Syria. However, the prosecutor did not link this fact to the case of the professor’s murder.
The history professors of the Conflans-Saint-Honorine College were assassinated and beheaded on the afternoon of October 16. The crime suspect died during the arrest. According to the information available, he is an 18-year-old from Moscow of Chechen origin. As Le Figaro wrote, shortly before his death, the professor showed a cartoon of the prophet Muhammad in a lesson on freedom of expression. One of the parents told Le Parisien that the teacher, before showing the drawing, invited everyone out of the classroom.
French President Emmanuel Macron called the incident “a typical Islamist terrorist act.”
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