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  • On Friday evening, Abdullakh Anzorov, a radicalized Chechen, beheaded a history and geography teacher because he had shown caricatures of Muhammad in class.

  • The 18-year-old terrorist was fired from a Toulouse wrestling club two years ago.

  • This wrestling club had been singled out for its drift into radicalism, especially around the Chechen community.

On Friday, Abdoullakh Anzorov, an 18-year-old Chechen, savagely murdered a history and geography professor in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine.

Two years ago, the terrorist had made an ephemeral stint in a club in the Pink City, where one of his uncles resides according to information revealed by

Le Parisien

.

After having searched the files of the Occitanie Regional Wrestling and Associated Sports Committee, its president, Didier Brisot eventually found traces of his time with the Toulouse Lutte Club.

“There were mistakes in the spelling of his name, but after checking, this wrestler was fired in 2018-2019.

When he was at the club, he was 16-17 years old, ”confirms the regional manager.

Before specifying that the latter did not stay long on the carpet of Toulouse Lutte Club.

“He stayed for three sessions.

Why, because he was never on time, the coach told him if you are not on time don't bother to come.

After that, he left earlier, he was making excuses, so we decided not to keep him.

We know very little about him.

The coach remembered him very little, ”says Didier Brisot.

National sport in Chechnya, wrestling clubs in France are very popular with expatriates from this Russian republic.

Sometimes it goes up to 40% of the club's membership.

This could sometimes cause some problems in clubs.

As was the case in Toulouse with the club attended by Abdoullakh Anzorov.

Drifts in the club

At the end of 2017, beginning of 2018, it was reported to the regional committee of abuses within this association, in particular the holding of prayers in the locker rooms or the positions taken vis-à-vis the clothing of young women made redundant.

Facts that had been pointed out by a report from France 2 in this club which is located in the city center and where eight nationalities rub shoulders.

“When I saw that there were certain problems in this club, we wanted to professionalize it.

Now we have a coach who is Chechen but who reports to the regional committee and to me personally, we can intervene directly.

We told them it is like this, if you don't agree we close the club, they told us that it would not happen again.

When I pass, I check each time and I pass once a week, ”says Didier Brisot, who at the time asked the youth and sports department to intervene on the subject of radicalization.

Fear of stigma

“An event like that does not serve us and discriminates against our sport.

In Toulouse, there was Mohamed Merah, he played in a football club.

We stigmatized the football club when it had nothing to do with it.

The Chechens are a community the vast majority of which seek to integrate, ”regrets the manager, who explains that if this club is located in the city center, it is also to get them out of neighborhoods.

Today the club has a little more than 160 licensees, including 25 to 30 women, and the situation would be cleaned up.

It is impossible to say if Abdoullakh Anzorov came to this club in 2018 for religious questions or if it was in Toulouse that he became radicalized.

"It seems difficult to me that it is radicalized in three sessions", slice Didier Brisot.

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