French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said police raids were meant to send the message that “enemies of the Republic” would not enjoy “a minute’s respite.”
Imagine how embarrassed Darmanin will be when he discovers that the death penalty for blasphemy is not “extremist,” but is part of mainstream Islam.
“Outraged parent and Islamic preacher ‘issued fatwa’ against beheaded teacher for showing pupils Prophet Mohammed cartoons, minister says as police raid dozens of ‘extremists’ homes,'” by Tim Stickings and Peter Allen, MailOnline, October 19, 2020:
The French school teacher beheaded in an Islamist terror attack on Friday had a ‘fatwa’ launched against him before he was killed, France’s interior minister said today.
Gerald Darmanin said an arrested preacher and a father who complained about the teacher’s use of Prophet Mohammed cartoons had ‘clearly launched a fatwa’, or Islamic religious ruling, against teacher Samuel Paty.
French police today raided the homes of dozens of suspected militants in a crackdown which Darmanin said was intended to send a message that ‘enemies of the Republic’ will not enjoy ‘a minute’s respite’.
Darmanin told Europe 1 radio that police operations were continuing against ‘dozens of individuals’ after 11 people were arrested over the weekend and Emmanuel Macron vowed new measures against extremism.
The father, Brahim Chnina, whose 13-year-old daughter went to Paty’s secondary school, had launched an online call for ‘mobilisation’ against the teacher and had sought his dismissal from the school over the cartoons.
Chnina had named Paty and given the school’s address in a social media post just days before the assault, which Macron labelled an Islamist terror attack.
In addition, his half-sister is known to have joined ISIS in 2014, although her current whereabouts are unknown.
Prosecutors have not said whether the attacker, 18-year-old Chechen extremist Aboulakh Anzorov, had any links to the school or acted independently upon the online outrage, but several of his relatives have been arrested.
According to Le Monde, Anzorov had tried to bribe students with hundreds of euros for information about the teacher, with a 15-year-old pupil apparently among those arrested. The boy ‘absolutely denies knowing what Anzorov was going to do,’ said an investigating source.
Darmanin said there were about 80 investigations under way into online hate speech in France and that he was looking into whether or not certain groups from the French Muslim community should be dissolved….
It has been revealed that Islamist terrorist Anzorov filmed himself killing and then beheading Paty outside the gates of his school in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine before sharing a video of the victim’s severed head to fellow ISIS supporters.
Investigators believe ‘support for ISIS and other links to extreme Islamism’ prompted Anzorov to approach the Bois-d’Aulne school with weapons including a 14-inch kitchen knife and an air pistol.
Anzorov had travelled 50 miles from his home in Evreux to get to the school, where Mr Paty taught history and geography….