The investigations will seek to determine whether this blogger, who had published a video calling for a strike on France a month before the facts, was able or not to incite the terrorist to kill Professor Samuel Paty in 2020.
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The National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office has opened a preliminary investigation for “provoking a terrorist act” against a jihadist blogger who was in contact with the terrorist who killed Samuel Paty in October 2020, franceinfo learned on Tuesday November 8. confirming information from the log The Parisian (article reserved for subscribers).
The investigations, entrusted to the Anti-Terrorism Sub-Directorate (Sdat), therefore seek to determine whether Faruq Shami, who had published a video calling for a strike on France a month before the facts, was able or not to incite the terrorist to kill the professor, as well as the video published by Abdelhakim Sefrioui. It was the latter’s lawyers who first wanted to put Faruq Shami’s name at the center of the case. In September 2022, Me Elise Arfi confirmed to franceinfo that she had filed a request for an arrest warrant against the blogger, stressing that he had received the terrorist’s claim video first.
His client, Abdelhakim Sefrioui, a sulphurous Islamist militant, is himself indicted for “complicity in terrorist assassination” in this case. He recorded and posted videos on social media accusing the teacher of asking Muslim students out before showing cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad published by the weekly Charlie Hebdo. His videos swelled the controversy and attracted the attention of the terrorist who murdered Samuel Paty, according to the investigation.
On October 16, 2020, history and geography professor Samuel Paty, 47, was stabbed and then beheaded near his college in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine (Yvelines), by Abdoullakh Anzorov, a radicalized Russian refugee of Chechen origin from 18 years old. He was killed shortly after by the police but had time to claim his actions in an audio message in Russian, in which he congratulated himself on having “avenge the prophet”.
Two years later, the anti-terrorism investigating judges have completed their investigations. Fourteen people are indicted, including ten for “complicity in terrorist assassination”, three for “criminal terrorist association” and one for “slanderous denunciation”. Six of them are in pre-trial detention.