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French Min. Condemns 'Political Exploitation' of Teacher Beheading


Tue 20 Oct 2020 | 04:01 PM
Ahmed Yasser

The Justice French Minister Eric Debon Moretti, condemned Today, exploiting the French teacher massacre, Samuel Patty, last Friday, by French politicians for "electoral purposes".

Earlier, Police shot dead the Moscow-born student after he killed the history teacher Patty, 47, in the Conflans-Saint-Honorine suburb on Friday.

Last Saturday, the French counterterrorism prosecutor, Jean-Francois Ricard, said that the 18-year-old who beheaded a history teacher in front of his school spoke to his students on the street and asked them to identify his victim.

Reuters quoted Ricard, saying that a picture of the teacher’s body, which the attacker posted on Twitter, was found attached to a message on his phone after police killed him. He added that the account belonged to the attacker.

Twitter quickly deleted the post and said it closed the account for violating company policy, according to Reuters.

On other hand, Ricard explained that the attacker, who was of Chechen origin, was living in the town of Evre, northwest of Paris, and was not known by the intelligence services.

The prosecutor confirmed that the police were holding nine people in connection with the attack. The murder shocked the country and reminded its people with the attack on the headquarters of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo five years ago.