France: Father of Muslim Student Exchanged Messages With Assassin

Samuel Paty

In France, The case of the murder and beheading of a teacher this week continues to shock the nation. Le Figaro is now reporting that the father of a Muslim student who viewed Mohammad cartoons shown by the teacher, Samuel Paty, in class, had exchanged messages with the killer, now fully identified as Abdoullakh Anzorov. The below article from Le Figaro is translated by Fousesquawk.

https://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/assassinat-de-samuel-paty-un-parent-d-eleve-et-l-assaillant-ont-echange-des-messages-avant-l-attaque-20201020

The assassination of Samuel Paty: A parent of a pupil and the assailant exchanged messages before the attack

These exchanges are believed to have been on the message server, Whatsapp.

by Le Figaro and AFP.  Published three hours ago, updated one hour ago

The pupil's father who had called for a mobilization on social media against Samuel Paty, the professor assassinated Friday, 16 October near his school in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine (Yvelines), exchanged messages by telephone with the assailant in the days that preceded the attack, AFP learned Tuesday from a source close to the case.  

These exchanges are believed to have taken place on the message server, Whatsapp, added this inside source, confirming news from BFMTV, without giving specifics as to their content.

The father of the coed had given his telephone number on Facebook in a message accompanying a video disseminated 8 October, in which he called for mobilization against Samuel Paty after a course on the Mohammad caricatures, which, according to him, his daughter attended. The latter, who is in the 4th grade, was, indeed, part of a class in which Samuel Paty gave a course on freedom of expression on 6 October, but she was absent that day according to a source close to the case.

On 12 October, he had disseminated a new video on YouTube targeting the teacher, in which the militant Islamist, Abdelhakim Sefrioui, appeared with him. The two men were taken into custody Tuesday afternoon in this anti-terrorist investigation, along with 14 other persons including 5 students.