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France beheading suspect had no links with Russia

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France beheading suspect had no links with Russia

A photo shows flowers and a placard reading 'I am Samuel' at the entrance of a middle school in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, 30 kms northwest of Paris, on October 17, 2020, after a teacher was decapitated by an attacker who has been shot dead by policemen. - The man suspected of beheading on October 16 ,2020 a French teacher who had shown his students cartoons of the prophet Mohammed was an 18-year-old born in Moscow and originating from Russia's southern region of Chechnya, a judicial source said on October 17. Five more people have been detained over the murder on October 16, 2020 outside Paris, including the parents of a child at the school where the teacher was working, bringing to nine the total number currently under arrest, said the source, who asked not to be named. The attack happened at around 5 pm (1500 GMT) near a school in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, a western suburb of the French capital. The man who was decapitated was a history teacher who had recently shown caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed in class. (Photo by Bertrand GUAY / AFP)

Photo by Bertrand Guay/AFP

'This crime has no relation to Russia because this person had lived in France for the past 12 years,' says the spokesman for the Russian embassy in Paris

An 18-year-old Chechen accused of beheading a teacher near his school in a Paris suburb received asylum in France and had no links to Russia, a Russian diplomat said on Saturday, October 17.

“This crime has no relation to Russia because this person had lived in France for the past 12 years,” the spokesman for the Russian embassy in Paris, Sergei Parinov, told state news agency TASS.

Identifying the suspect – who was fatally wounded by police – as Abdullakh Anzorov, Parinov said his family arrived in France when Anzorov was 6 and requested asylum.

The young man received a residence permit this year, he added.

“He had no contacts with the (Russian) embassy,” Parinov said.

He said it was “important not where a person was born” but when and why he embraced “terrorist ideology”.

On Friday, 47-year-old teacher Samuel Paty was decapitated outside his school in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, northwest of the French capital.

The attacker was shot by police as they tried to arrest him and later died of his injuries.

The teacher had been the target of online threats for having shown pupils cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in class. – Rappler.com

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