French judicial sources said that the authorities have arrested 4 students over the case of the murder of the teacher who displayed in his classroom cartoons offensive to the noble Prophet Muhammad, may God bless him and grant him peace.
Today, Thursday, the judicial authorities brought charges against the four students, according to what was reported by the French Press Agency.
Three of them - between the ages of 13 and 14 - were charged with "complicity in a terrorist murder," as investigators suspect that they pointed to the aforementioned teacher so that the killer could recognize his face.
As for the fourth defendant, she is the daughter of a man named Ibrahim Shanina who launched an online campaign denouncing the teacher's display of the offensive cartoons published by "Charlie Hebdo" magazine. The authorities accused her of "malicious slander" against the teacher, claiming that she transmitted a story about what happened in the classroom despite She was not present at the time, according to investigators.
The French Press Agency quoted a judicial source as saying that the authorities briefly detained the four teenagers earlier this week at the request of investigators in the field of combating terrorism.
The agency added that they were temporarily released and placed under judicial supervision.
Chase after students
Earlier this month, the judicial authorities accused 3 other students of complicity in the killing of the teacher, and in total, the number of people being pursued in the case was 14.
The Chechen immigrant Abdullah Anzurov (18 years) tracked the teacher Samuel Bate near his school in the Conflans-Saint-Honorine suburb near Paris and beheaded on October 16.
Since that incident, the authorities have launched a campaign against French Muslim preachers and activists, as well as mosques and Islamic societies, under the pretext of combating extremism.
Recent writers and activists have criticized what they say is discrimination against Muslim children in France.
During the past few days, France witnessed the publication of insulting cartoons of the Seal of the Prophets - may God bless him and grant him peace - on the facades of some buildings, in conjunction with repeated statements by French President Emmanuel Macron in which he stressed not to reject these drawings, on the pretext of preserving freedom of expression.
The cartoons and Macron's statements sparked a wave of anger throughout the Islamic world, and as a result, campaigns were launched in most Islamic and Arab countries to boycott French products and goods, which are still continuing today.