The investigation is progressing.

The parent of student Brahim C. and the sulphurous Islamist Abdelhakim Sefrioui were indicted on Wednesday October 21 for "complicity in terrorist assassination" in the investigation into the death of teacher Samuel Paty in the Yvelines, announced the national anti-terrorism prosecution.

Two friends of the assailant, Naim B. (18) and Azim E. (19), were also indicted on the same charge.

A third close relative, Yussuf C., is being prosecuted for "terrorist association with a view to committing crimes against persons".

All have been remanded in custody except Brahim C., who has however been detained pending a debate on the matter.

The two 14 and 15-year-old college students, accused of having appointed the teacher to the assailant for remuneration, were also indicted for "complicity in murder in connection with a terrorist enterprise", but they were however left free under judicial supervision.

The anti-terrorism prosecution had requested the placement in detention for at least one of the college students, against the advice of the investigating judges.

Target on social networks

Samuel Paty, a 47-year-old teacher in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine (Yvelines) was beheaded on Friday by Abdoullakh Anzorov, an 18-year-old refugee of Chechen Russian origin, for showing caricatures of Muhammad during two courses in early October on the freedom of expression.

Brahim C., 48, and Abdelhakim Sefrioui, 61, are accused of having "designated by name as a target on social networks the history-geography teacher" by means of a maneuver and a reinterpretation of facts ", underlined the antiterrorist prosecutor Jean-François Ricard during a press conference Wednesday afternoon.

"There are sponsors who are behind this attack and who are certainly delighted to see that the investigation is focused on peripheral accomplices, who never wanted such a horror", reacted to AFP the lawyer by Abdelhakim Sefrioui.

"Mr. Sefrioui had no idea what was going to happen, there was no contact between them, nothing even says that Anzorov saw his video," he said.

According to the lawyer, "the dangerous people, who trained Anzorov, are safe and will train others".

With AFP

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