Teacher beheaded in Yvelines: who are the ten people in police...

At the headquarters of the DGSI, in Levallois-Perret (Hauts-de-Seine), a race against time is engaged to try to shed light on this affair. Friday, October 16, in the evening, an investigation was opened to “assassination in connection with a terrorist enterprise” and “criminal terrorist association”.

Anti-terrorism investigators now have less than 96 hours before them to determine possible implications or complicity among the ten people arrested and taken into custody, in the aftermath of the assassination by beheading of a professor who had shown caricatures of Muhammad to his students, in a college in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine (Yvelines).

Four people from the family circle of the attacker were arrested in Evreux (Eure), in the night from Friday to Saturday. Among them are the terrorist’s parents, grandfather and younger brother. They all say they’ve fallen from the clouds and saw nothing coming.

Also in custody, the student’s parent having called for mobilization against the teacher, mentioning his name on social networks, after his daughter had told him that Samuel Paty had shown in class caricatures of the prophet Muhammad . He had also gone to the police station to file a complaint against the history teacher for disseminating pornographic images and had, in return, suffered a complaint for defamation.

The man was arrested this Saturday at dawn in Chanteloup-les-Vignes (Yvelines). The national anti-terrorism prosecutor (PNAT), Jean-François Ricard, said he had a half-sister who left in 2014 to join the Islamic State organization in Syria and was the subject of a search warrant.

Among those held in custody, the man who had accompanied him to college to complain about the professor, the Islamist activist Abdelhakim Sefrioui, is also heard by the investigators. He was arrested with his partner in Pantin (Seine-Saint-Denis) this Saturday in the middle of the afternoon. It was he who interviewed in a video posted on social networks the daughter of this parent of a student.

Claiming to be on the board of directors of the Council of Imams of France, an organization not representative of Islam in France, this preacher, very active in France (Release echoes his regular pressure strikes against Republican institutions) since the mid-2000s, was one of the leaders of the protest which targeted the beheaded teacher late Friday afternoon. This imam is presented by the intelligence services as a “guru of the cause“, a “dangerous man with a sulphurous reputation“. According to investigators, he played a key role in the sling against the teacher. To the point of triggering the fatal action on the latter? This is what the police seek to know.

Finally, three people spontaneously presented themselves to the Evreux police station on Friday evening. All three had been in telephone contact with the assailant in the hours leading up to his act. Investigators want to know whether or not they were in the know.