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The French bring flowers to the school where the murdered teacher worked and write Je suis Samuel (“I am Samuel”). Photo: Le Figaro
France is in mourning. On Sunday, mass processions were held across the country in memory of the brutally murdered Islamist school teacher Samuel Pati.
On October 16, he was beheaded by an 18-year-old Chechen émigré for showing his disciples caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.
Five years ago, a similar story happened with Charlie Hebdo magazine, when jihadists attacked the editorial office for cartoons of the prophet, killing 12 people.
“Strana” discovered how and why the crime happened and what its consequences would be.
“I asked the Muslim students to come out”
Pati, 47, taught history and geography in the suburbs of Paris. He showed Charlie Hebdo cartoons in a lesson on the secular state and free speech.
The students later said that Pati offered to leave the class for those whom the images might offend.
“My son says he was super helpful, super friendly and super kind,” Nordin Chawadi told AFP. “He simply told the Muslim children, ‘Get out of class, I don’t want to hurt your feelings.”
The murdered teacher Samuel Pati is described as a kind and understanding person. Photo: social networks
In early October, several Muslim parents complained to the principal that the teacher had decided to use cartoons as teaching material and asked to leave their children’s classroom, demanding to be fired.
A week before the attack, a video appeared on social media in which a man, posing as the father of one of the Party’s students, called the teacher a bandit and urged the others to join in and say: “Stop, don’t touch our children. “
“Even before the assassination, many videos appeared on the Internet against this teacher, demonstrations were organized in front of the school because he urged Muslim students to leave the classroom to show a cartoon of Muhammad,” Omar Arfush, a frank businessman and political scientist, tells Strana -Ukrainian. “One of those who distributed the video against the teacher said terrible things that he was almost fighting against France.”
It was this video, according to the investigation, that led a Chechen boy named Abdulakh Anzorov to cruelly deal with the teacher.
It later turned out that the Chechen did not belong to any radical group, but was a member of a gang in the Eranyi commune, one of whom was an Islamist known to the police. She lived in the town of Evreux, 90 kilometers from Conflans-Saint-Honorine, where the school where Pati worked was located.
“Macron is the leader of the infidels”
Anzorov had planned the crime in advance. On his mobile phone a recording was found claiming responsibility for the murder, made several hours before the execution.
Armed with a large knife, Anzorov attacked the teacher near the school, where he was waiting for him, hit him several times on the neck, and then cut off his victim’s head. According to eyewitnesses, at the time of the attack, the killer shouted “Allahu Akbar”.
He then tried to escape, but the police arrived, who were called by witnesses. They caught up with him in a neighboring town, he did not want to surrender and began to threaten with weapons.
The guy fired a pneumatic pistol five times in the direction of the police. In response, the police opened fire and injured Anzorov. He tried to get up and attack the police with a knife, after which he was shot and killed.
An Airsoft gas pistol, five rounds of ammunition and a knife were found next to the attacker. A second knife with a 35-centimeter blade and traces of blood was found 30 meters from the victim.
Immediately after the assassination, Anzorov managed to post on Twitter under the nickname Tchetchene_270 a photo of the severed head and wrote an appeal to French President Emmanuel Macron: “In the name of Allah, the most merciful. Macron, the leader of the infidels. I executed one of your hellhounds, who dared to look down on Muhammad. “
As part of the investigation, the police arrested nine people, including the father of one of the students, who called for the dismissal of the Party and who was outraged on his Facebook because the teacher showed a drawing depicting a naked prophet in class .
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Among those arrested is also a man who accompanied the student’s father when he visited the school principal. He demanded the removal of the Party and threatened a demonstration, and also participated in one of the videos criticizing the teacher. This man is known for the French special services. According to AFP, we are talking about “a very active Islamist activist” Abdelakim Sefriui.
It is known about the Chechen himself that he and his family came to France at the age of six, and previously lived in Moscow. Anzorov’s parents were denied refugee status, but the French National Refugee Court later overturned this decision and the family was able to remain in the country. Having come of age, Anzorov automatically received a residence permit in March.
Macron called the gruesome murder of a teacher an Islamist terrorist attack.
“One of our compatriots was killed for teaching students freedom of expression, the freedom to believe or not believe. He was the victim of an Islamist terrorist attack,” he said.
On Sunday October 18, thousands of French people came out to honor the memory of the brutally murdered teacher. Photo: Le Figaro
France’s Muslim leaders also strongly condemned the attack.
The editorial team of “Charlie Hebdo”, which survived the attack by Islamists due to the cartoons of the prophet, spoke out.
“Charlie Hebdo” shares horror and outrage after a teacher who was doing his work was killed by a religious fanatic. Condolences to his family, loved ones and all teachers, “wrote the representatives of the publication on Twitter.
The head of the Chechen Republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, also made a statement after Chechens began to be branded as terrorists. Kadyrov condemned the attack, but at the same time urged not to provoke believers or hurt their religious feelings.
“This is not the first time that people in France have tried to blame Chechens for all their problems. I dare to assure everyone that Chechens have nothing to do with it,” Kadyrov wrote on his Telegram channel.
According to him, the suspect has lived most of his life in France, having moved there as a child with his parents, grew up alongside the French, communicated, spoke and wrote in their language.
“Speaking categorically against terrorism in any form, I urge not to provoke believers, not to hurt their religious feelings,” Kadyrov asked.
In his view, when a state institution for inter-ethnic and interreligious relations is established in France, the country will have a healthy society.
“In the meantime, find the strength to admit that Muslims have a right to religion and that no one will take it from them!” – concluded the head of the Chechen Republic.
Macron wants to fight “Islamic separatism”
“Of course this murder is barbaric, France is in shock, I myself am in shock, because I personally support freedom of expression. What happened is terrifying,” says Arfush.
However, the situation in France for religious and migratory reasons has been heating up for a long time, and especially in recent weeks. And killing a teacher can be a trigger.
“Recently, the climate in France in relation to Islam is not very healthy. For a week now, they have only been talking about how tired Muslims are, that the farther away, the more they allow themselves, they are outraged that the Parents of the students demand to remove the pig from the school menu. They say we do not want to become an Islamic republic, but to remain a free France. And last week, even before the teacher’s murder, Macron said he was against separatism. Of course, for Ukrainians, separatism means real separatism, but he had done it in the form of Islamic fundamentalism, only, probably, he was afraid to call it that. Why separatism? Because a small percentage of Muslim fanatics do not let that his children go to school, he teaches them the Koran and Arabic at home. Macron considers them separatists, because they do not recognize the French Republic. a bill on the fight against the “se Islamic paratism “(which includes the control of private denominational schools and the supervision of financing of mosques in France). But when Macron raised this issue, many Muslims felt that the law would be passed against him, “says Arfush.
The murder of the teacher, he said, opens another issue that worries France and that began last summer, when armed Chechens entered the Moroccan region and wanted to understand and fix the lynchings.
“Then France realized that Chechens live separately, according to their own laws. These are Chechens of two generations: the first to flee the war in Chechnya 20 years ago, and a new wave, when Russia passed a law. on homosexuals and France opened the doors to political refugees. ” There were many Chechens who claimed to be gay and supposedly wanted to be killed in Chechnya for this. Of course, they are not true homosexuals, they simply want refugee status in France, “says Arfush.
Macron’s rating collapsed in half
Retaliation against a teacher can also have political consequences, both for France and for the whole of Europe.
“First, a new wave of dissatisfaction with Muslim immigrants and ghettos is mounting. Of the 59 million inhabitants of France, 5 million are Muslims, some of whom live separately, in effect, a state within a state, organizing periodically rioting and setting cars on fire. And at the same time, the radicals – far right, far left, Eurosceptic and supporters of “Frexit” who want France to leave the EU following the example of Great Britain to limit migration, among other things, What could cause a ripple effect across Europe and shake up the whole EU, shares French political scientist Dominique Rainey with Strana – If incidents with Islamists are repeated, the next presidential elections, to be held in a year and a half, could give a right-wing candidate a chance to win, all in the context of a division of French society into separate communities and a new wave of chorus navirus. three years since he came to power, he has collapsed by half, from more than 64% to less than 30%. The name and prospects of his main rival, far-right Marine Le Pen, are vague and, according to polls, the French do not want a repeat of the Macron vs. Le Pen. Therefore, it can happen that the pendulum swings to the left. Especially in the context of the “yellow vests” movement, which has gone nowhere. “
