Suspects behind beheading called for teacher’s death: minister – By Source Agencies (Al Jazeera) / Oct 19 2020
Eleven people are being held over the beheading of a French teacher, a crime which has led to nationwide protests.
The suspects behind the beheading of a French teacher had actively called for his death online, France’s interior minister claimed on Monday.
Samuel Paty was beheaded on Friday outside his school in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, in the northern suburbs of Paris, by an 18-year-old Chechen man who was subsequently shot dead by police.
“They apparently launched a ‘fatwa’ against the teacher,” Gerald Darmanin told Europe 1 radio on Monday, referring to the father of a student and an activist who had appeared together to complain about Paty to the headteacher of the school he worked at.
The student’s father had posted a video on social media claiming that Paty had shown an image of a naked man and told students it was “the prophet of the Muslims”. He called on other angry parents to contact him, and relay the message.
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