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Day 3: French police make arrests after teacher beheaded in Paris suburb | |||||
2020-10-18 | |||||
Police shot the attacker dead minutes after he murdered 47-year-old history teacher Samuel Paty on Friday. Four relatives of the attacker, including a minor, were detained in the immediate aftermath of the attack in the middle-class suburb of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, according to police sources. Five more were detained overnight, among them two parents of pupils at the College du Bois d’Aulne where the teacher was employed. A week ago, one man who said his daughter was in Paty’s class recorded a video shared on social media in which he branded the teacher a thug and appealed to others to "join forces and say ’stop, don’t touch our children’". It was not clear whether the parent was one of those in police custody. It was also not immediately known if the attacker had seen the video.
The father of a schoolgirl had sought 47-year-old teacher Samuel Paty’s dismissal and launched an online call for "mobilization" against him after the lesson on freedom of expression, Jean-Francois Ricard said in a televised news conference. Paty was decapitated outside his school in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, northwest of the capital, and the killer was fatally maimed by police.
The girl and her father lodged a criminal complaint against the teacher, who in turn filed a complaint of defamation, said Ricard. The aggrieved father named Paty and gave the school’s address in a social media post just days before the beheading, which President Emmanuel Macron has labeled an Islamist terror attack. The prosecutor said the attacker had been armed with a knife, an airgun and five canisters. He had fired shots at police and tried to stab them as they closed in on him. He was shot nine times, said Ricard. Those arrested included four close family members of Abdullakh A., and two people who had reported to police to say they had been in contact with him, said the prosecutor. Police also arrested a friend of the schoolgirl’s father who had gone with him to see the principal to demand Paty’s dismissal. The friend was already on the radar of French intelligence services, and Ricard said a warrant of arrest is out for the father’s half sister, who has joined the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group’s fighters in Syria. The attacker himself was not known to the French intelligence services, said the prosecutor. An investigation is underway into "murder linked to a terrorist organization".
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Posted by:Fred |
#9 #1: |
Posted by: Canuckistan sniper 2020-10-18 19:44 |
#8 #5 Well, they whacked the perp instead of playing "due process". Maybe, they've run out of patience with Allan's hornets. |
Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-10-18 15:46 |
#7 Isn't diversity great? |
Posted by: Abu Uluque 2020-10-18 15:41 |
#6 Mahometans want mo' "autonomy?" Marianne, in her ennui and anomie, Is still not a friend Of old Prophet Duchesne After losing her head for said enemy? |
Posted by: Marilyn Peacock7183 2020-10-18 15:40 |
#5 France to expel 231 suspected extremists after attack on teacher Oh my goodness — actual action at last! Or is this just a promise to do so in the future? |
Posted by: trailing wife 2020-10-18 15:29 |
#4 Four relatives of the attacker, including a minor, were detained in the immediate aftermath of the attack in the middle-class suburb of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, according to police sources. Five more were detained overnight, among them two parents of pupils at the College du Bois d’Aulne where the teacher was employed. So I guess they were known 'activists'? |
Posted by: Skidmark 2020-10-18 15:16 |
#3 France to expel 231 suspected extremists after attack on teacher |
Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-10-18 14:19 |
#2 So they arrested someone for favoring Education reform, right? |
Posted by: AlanC 2020-10-18 12:14 |
#1 Beat em all and ship em back |
Posted by: Frank G 2020-10-18 07:32 |