Tribute to Samuel Paty, on the steps of the National Assembly on October 20, 2020. -

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The investigation into the Conflans attack is progressing.

Seven people, including two minors, will be presented Wednesday to an anti-terrorism judge with a view to opening a judicial investigation and possible indictments after the assassination of Professor Samuel Paty on Friday.

Messages on WhatsApp with the killer

Among them is Brahim C., the student's parent who launched the mobilization against the teacher after two classes on freedom of expression on October 5 and 6.

Anti-terrorism investigators, who are looking for possible complicity, are particularly interested in messages exchanged on WhatsApp between this father and the assailant, Abdoullakh Anzorov, an 18-year-old refugee of Chechen origin.

The sulphurous Islamist activist Abdelhakim Sefrioui, who had accompanied this parent of a student in his mobilization, will also be presented to a judge.

Also referred, two minors are suspected of having received money from the assailant in exchange for information on the victim.

A source close to the file explained Monday that the beheaded teacher had been "designated" to the attacker "by one or more college students, a priori against remuneration".

Finally, three friends of the assailant, who had spontaneously surrendered to the Evreux police station on Friday evening, must also be presented to a judge.

According to a source close to the file, one of them is suspected of having escorted the assailant, while another is suspected of having accompanied him during the purchase of a weapon which was used during his attack.

The custody of nine other people was however lifted Tuesday evening, without being prosecuted at this stage.

Among these people are three schoolchildren, the parents, the grandfather and the little brother of the murderer, but also the companion of Abdelhakim Sefrioui as well as a man already convicted of terrorism and who was in contact with the assailant.

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